Top 100 Might As Well Quotes
#1. I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
Fantasia Barrino
#2. Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
Jandy Nelson
#3. If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#4. Since I was dead - or worse than dead, buried alive in a body that might as well be a coffin except it denied me the pleasure of suffocation - I figured I should be allowed to grieve.
Robin Wasserman
#5. Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true.
Gillian Flynn
#6. Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [ ... ] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.
Patrick Rothfuss
#7. Who uses crunchy peanut butter?" he asked the room. "You might as well eat squirrel shit.
Michael Thomas Ford
#8. The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather
#9. We should take the sheer improbability of our own existence as a kick in the butt to get out of bed in the morning. If you hear this fact as discouraging - that you're only one in billions - then flip the script. You are one in billions! Someone has to succeed, so it might as well be you.
Sophia Amoruso
#10. Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.
Hannah Kent
#11. Mary, you make me wanna eat you
Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you
Fragrance like a flower, subtle and sweet too
Seductive and whatever, it might as well be see through.
Daniel Dumile
#12. If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.
Billy Joel
#13. If your face is going to "talk" for you anyway, you might as well have it communicate something positive.
John C. Maxwell
#14. If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
Yann Martel
#15. It's not like anybody's going to notice if you go away," he said. "So you might as well gut it out." Isn't
Sherman Alexie
#16. If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
Diana Vreeland
#17. We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.
Dalai Lama
#18. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling
#19. If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.
Robert Breault
#20. Everyone knew that once a woman was 30, she might as well be dead.
Alexandra Ripley
#21. When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
Marian Anderson
#22. You are going to be who you are. Might as well embrace it or forever be at the mercy of the human fears and trepidations of life that can devastate and drag us down.
Billy Idol
#23. Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.
Ken Kesey
#24. I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.
Katy Perry
#25. When life gives you lemons ... You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.
Rob Thurman
#26. For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard
#27. Still, what was the point to love if it didn't make you feel like you could fly? You might as well live alone.
Barbara Bretton
#28. Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
Alan Bennett
#29. I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.
Richelle Mead
#30. You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.
Joyce Meyer
#31. We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
Annie Dillard
#32. Even now, when I have time to consider what I've been and what I am, I doubt I comprehend my humanity, if I can claim so grand a word for my own morsel of life. I might as well be a meteor of a man, for all the difference I've made on earth.
Norman Lock
#33. You might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.
Todd Burpo
#34. One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.
John Dewey
#35. Sammy suns?" Sam laughed derisively. "They might as well be candles.
Michael Grant
#36. If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
Adolph Rupp
#37. Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
Andrea Bocelli
#38. If you gotta kill two birds, might as well get stoned.
Kinky Friedman
#39. Went to Jude's party tonight in a tight little black dress to show off figure feeling v. full of myself ...
... There's nothing worse than people telling you you looked tired. They might as well have done with it and say you look like five kinds of shit.
Helen Fielding
#40. Even if you never, ever ride the bike it will still age. So you might as well ride it while it's pretty and enjoy the process of making it ugly.
BikeSnobNYC
#41. I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#42. you will need to figure out what you wish to do with your time." He said in a sickening and patronizing tone. He might as well have been talking to an aimless teenager flailing to launch into the world.
K.J. Kilton
#43. It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
Damien Hirst
#44. Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.
Chris Adrian
#45. You have to do everything to help your team out. I have the ability to rebound, so I might as well go and do it to help my team win.
Gilbert Arenas
#46. I knew fashion was going to be part of my job, so I thought I might as well have fun with it.
Clemence Poesy
#47. I just like to play anything that's competitive. If I'm not competing against somebody, then I might as well play something I can enjoy.
Seimone Augustus
#48. For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.
Koichi Tanaka
#50. All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.
Robert Breault
#52. And what was that about blood brothers? That means absolutely nothing. You might as well have said you were pinecone cousins.
Pierce Brown
#53. He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away.
Franz Kafka
#54. i knew she'd leave me. i figure we might as well go somewhere memorable to fall apart
Felicia Luna Lemus
#55. How shallow the words are, really - She is a witch. One might as well say, She is a mother, thinks Iris; that about covers the same terrain, doesn't it?
Gregory Maguire
#56. You might as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
'It is the same thing with you,' said the Hatter[ ... ].
Lewis Carroll
#57. when there's nothing to be done you might as well get some sleep, because when there is something to be done you're going to wish you'd had some." As
Mercedes Lackey
#58. If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.
Mercedes Lackey
#59. I'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry
Ntozake Shange
#60. You might as well go one place as another," he said. "That's all I know.
Flannery O'Connor
#61. In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside yourself and I do that anyway, so I might as well be doing something that I already do, as in a second nature to me, on film.
Gina Carano
#62. Young Bran, striving to please and yearning for the approving touch of a father's hand, only ever saw that hand raised in anger. Thus, he learned at an early age that since he could never please his father, he might as well please himself.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#63. Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.
Julie Christie
#64. When you feel depressed and you wanta go here, wanta go there, remember Mind Essence; the world, like dreams, will never come true. Operate on Intuition, Rest and Be Happy. It's all in your head what happens so you might as well think happiness.
Jack Kerouac
#65. And if you've got a voice, you might as well use it, right?
Rebecca Stead
#66. You're 18 points down [in the polls] ... You might as well do what's right.
Henry A. Kissinger
#67. I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work.
Kurt Vonnegut
#68. In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
John Thorn
#70. Sad day, my loves, a proper tragedy. But when the milk's gone bad you might as well look forward to cheese, hmm?
Scott Lynch
#71. It's a condom, Kade, because if you're going to act like a dick, you might as well dress like one,
Christine Zolendz
#72. No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no one stares at us.
Joanne Harris
#73. Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.
Ronnie Montrose
#74. If you cannot escape your prison, then you might as well imagine that you're free.
Stefan Molyneux
#75. People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.
Taylor Swift
#76. As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War - they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
G.K. Chesterton
#77. You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
Ahmad Jamal
#78. I figure if you've got to take someone down or set them straight, you might as well enjoy it on some level.
Malcom
Nora Roberts
#79. The prostate might as well have been a mythological creature like a unicorn or Leprechaun only acknowledged through whispery giggles among women brunching with their gay friends.
Maggie Young
#80. I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge.
Different.
Alone.
Everything around me, grey.
It was the same old feeling, back again.
I was in the middle of the group but I might as well have been a million miles away from these people.
Tim Relf
#81. Personally, I'd rather shove a cactus up my ass, but apparently that option isn't on the table, so I might as well just rip the Band-Aid off now and get it over with.
Katja Millay
#82. People who live in glasshouses might as well answer the door
Morey Amsterdam
#83. You should just accept who you are, flaws and all, because if you try to be someone you aren't, then eventually some turkey is going to shit all over your well-crafted facade, so you might as well save yourself the effort and enjoy your zombie books.
Jenny Lawson
#84. Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.
Bobby Fischer
#85. We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.
Loretta Chase
#86. Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.
Daphne Merkin
#88. I'm going to live until I die and I'm not going to get life and death confused. While I'm on this earth I'm going to LIVE. Why only be half alive? Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.
David J. Schwartz
#89. What's so funny?" he asked.
"You'll just think I'm silly."
"I already think you're silly, so you might as well tell me."
"Batman," she breathed.
"What?
Elena Kincaid
#90. IMPROVIDENCE
The other lives I might have led
All now might as well be
Dead. Survived by no one.
Barren, without issue of any sort:
This withered bud, failed
In art and love. With no time left
To change my course. But time enough
for infinite remorse.
John Tottenham
#91. When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#92. Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#93. Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.
Jane Goodall
#94. You can fail at what you don't love so you might as well take a chance on doing what you do love.
Jim Carrey
#95. Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
Clarence Darrow
#96. The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.
Robert Frost
#97. And he stood so closely behind her that she felt his breath feather her neck. Blanche leaped away, putting a polite distance between them, her heart suddenly thundering in her chest. His body hadn't touched hers, but it might as well have, for she had felt his heat.
Brenda Joyce
#98. I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
Raekwon
#99. I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.
Olga Korbut
#100. If everyone's looking at me, I might as well say something interesting.
Stella Young
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