What are some *life is like a...* sayings. I know the common ones...box of chcolates, coin, etc etc etc. Give me orignal peple! Or just give me a really long list :)
2007-09-10 14:09:04 · 18 answers · asked by Angelina rose 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
This is the original Life is like from an epitaph in Barnwell Churchyard, near Cambridge, England
Man's life is like a Winter's day:
Some only breakfast and away;
Others to dinner stay and are full fed,
The oldest man but sups and goes to bed.
Long is his life who lingers out the day,
Who goes the soonest has the least to pay;
Death is the Waiter, some few run on tick,
And some alas! must pay the bill to Nick!
Tho' I owed much, I hope long trust is given,
And truly mean to pay all bills in Heaven.
2007-09-11 03:41:42 · answer #1 · answered by Country Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life... is like a box of chocolates; a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Un-returnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this un-definable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
2007-09-10 15:15:24 · answer #2 · answered by ♥_mrs.smith 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"Life is like a box of choc-o-lets. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump
That movie had about as deep a message as any I can recall. Even those Forrest only had an IQ of 70 he accomplished more than folks with IQ's of 150. It's not how much Creator gave you that matters. It's what you do with what Creator gave that counts.
2007-09-10 15:38:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life is like a dirty window. Cleaning the center is not a terribly difficult task. It's getting the icky stuff out once its been mushed into those corners that's trying.
2007-09-10 14:19:43 · answer #4 · answered by Christopher F 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life is like a roller coaster. There are ups and downs to life and you will never know when something unexpected will come along. But take it in your stride and you'll have lots of fun. Take it for granted and you may miss the excitement. Take it negatively and you will find it scary and you can't face up to reality. :)
2007-09-10 15:12:27 · answer #5 · answered by UnspokenShadow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life is like food.
For instance. Cooking a meal. it can be difficut at times depending on how hard you make it, but no matter what it is. you decide what goes into it, a bit of this, a bit of that. you can make flavors and different styles of food. you can bring it to life with colour and make appealing the eyes it. food has an endless list of things you can do with it. And the finished meal can even come out totally different to what you started with. but when its all eaten. the people have enjoyed it and they thank you for your effort. and your happy they loved it.
there are couple of ways to look it this.
But prefer this way.
Your life is what you make it. you decide what and how much you want to put into it. It can be very exciting . You Can be colourful and appealing to other people by your personality or you outward appearance. And everyone makes different choices for life. Who want to be is up to you. There so many directions in which to go. You can start out in way and end up complety different to what you were. But it the end "I hope we can say i really enjoyed most of my life, i worked as hard as i could. I hope others enjoyed me being in their life too". life can very hard at times but dont make it harder by stressing and worrying to much. just smile an move on.
Life is like food. You chose how to make it just dont make harder then it really is. Just enjoy it
2007-09-10 19:42:48 · answer #6 · answered by Jaanai M 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life is not like a box of chocolates... Its more like a jar of Jalapenos... What you do today might burn your a** tomorrow :P
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -- Lou Erickso
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas L. Holdcroft
2007-09-10 14:19:31 · answer #7 · answered by one of a kind 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life is like THIS question because it is open to interpretation, its meanings come from others, we are constantly intriqued by it, we never can claim to have a "right" answer to it, yet we perpetually seek one, and, while we attempt to complete it (fill in your blank), we simple add to that which will be lost to history...
2007-09-10 14:18:08 · answer #8 · answered by Think 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
life is like a roller coaster always having its up and down moments, u just have to remember that after every down there is an up!
2007-09-12 05:54:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is like a wheel it can one day go up hill or one day down hill
2007-09-10 14:38:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋