How We Should All Live Our Lives ??

[joggerjayne]

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/47188-life-should-not-be-a-journey-to-the-grave-with

[jno]

... at the age of 43...

[jourdain2]

I'm doing my best!

[Svejk]

I'll take the safe arrival.

[sandyRoe]

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But oh my foes, and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light

[gness]

I'm making a good fist of it......skidding in broadside shouldn't be a problem.....☺

[mrs.chappie]

I like that. Just wish I'd be able to remember it to quote it tomorrow. :o)

[Prudie]

Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

When I'm 73
and in constant good tumour
may I be mown down at dawn
by a bright red sports car
on my way home
from an allnight party

Or when I'm 91
with silver hair
and sitting in a barber's chair
may rival gangsters
with hamfisted tommyguns burst in
and give me a short back and insides

Or when I'm 104
and banned from the Cavern
may my mistress
catching me in bed with her daughter
and fearing for her son
cut me up into little pieces
and throw away every piece but one

Let me die a youngman's death
not a free from sin tiptoe in
candle wax and waning death
not a curtains drawn by angels borne
'what a nice way to go' death
Roger McGough

[anneasquith]

i like that sandy :)

[sandyRoe]

Edna St Vincent Millay said it first

[joggerjayne]

Very good, guys x

[Baldric]

//"Wow! What a Ride!”//

"That's the way to do it!"

[TWR]

I was once a HGV Driver
The sites I'd seen was grim
At times the job was good you see
But that was only to me.

I've seen a lot of Stupidity
I've come across the Clown's
I've seen people take a chance
But that Chance is one to Chance.

My aim in my job was to be Happy
My aim was always to get home
There was one thing I always' hoped for
If there was an accident, life taken would be my own.