The Personal Website of Mark W. Dawson

Humor of Life

Quips about Life and Living.

• If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have been willing to settle for less.
• All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
• No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
  - Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
• A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
• Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
  - Jane Wagner an American playwright and actress, most famous as Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator, companion and wife.

• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
• Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.
• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
  - Mark Twain