Modern Proverbs Appeal

[Jonathan Lighter]

The Mutha Lode of recent proverbs and proverb wanna-bes:

http://www.taglinesgalore.com/tags/alphalist.html

JL

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Wilson Gray mentions

> A variant possibly already submitted:
>
> "Life sucks, and then you die."
>
Related no doubt to "Life's a bitch, and then you marry one."

So, to give you two cliches for the price of one, here's the flavor I
often use:

"Life sucks and then you marry one and die."

Marc
msacks at theworld.com

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