One Thing After Another Quotes

• Life is just one damned thing after another.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Success, Justice

  Philistine Dec. 1909, p. 32. The saying is often attributed to Frank Ward

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• Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Love You, Love Is

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, Xist Publishing

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• History is one damn thing after another.

  H. A. L. Fisher

  Cycle Of Life, Another Life, Damn

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• It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Funny, Life, Existence

  Letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, 24 Oct. 1930 See Modern Proverbs 52

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• Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

  John Dustin Archbold

  Gentleman, Economics, Damn

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• The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

  George Santayana

  Eye, And Love, World

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The letters of George Santayana”, p.248, MIT Press

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• History's just one darn thing after another.

  Henry Ford

  Just One

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• The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

  Horace

  Time, Years, Plunder

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

  Richard Carlson

  Life Is, Process, Just One

  Richard Carlson (1999). “A Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Treasury: A Special Selection for Mothers”, Hyperion

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• It's just one thing after another. Cars that won't run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It's like...time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

  Dan Wells

  Running, Car, Use

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• So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fun, Plot, Favors

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.56, Nan A. Talese

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• If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, War, Appreciate

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• Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

  Ned Beauman

  Old Things, Chance, Increase

  "The Teleportation Accident". Book by Ned Beauman, July 19, 2012.

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• Life isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  One Thing

  "The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay". Book by Jean Gould, p. 198, 1969.

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• High energy creates more energy, more energy, more energy. It kicks off synapses, I guess. It opens up your brain and you think of one thing after another thing, after another. You can really open yourself up comedically, which is fun.

  Michael Keaton

  Fun, Thinking, Brain

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