Life Contemplators Mugs

If fifty is the new seventy, when is the new dead?

The Guy Who Mixed Up His To-Do List And His Bucket List

"My career's in shreds, but on the bright side, so are my files."

'I had considered a career as an offshore commodities broker specialising in securitised asset transfers but the pension wasn't as good.'

Not much money, glory, or praise

'I'm not sure what I want out of life, but I want a lot of it.'

The meaning of life is to avoid falling rocks

"I'm 59 and they say I'm middle aged. Just how many people do you know who are 118?"

"Death coach..."

"Whenever it comes, Glenda, my death will be untimely."

'I think I'm getting somewhere. On the way over I stopped to smell the flowers.'

"1971... 2015..."

Guys looks in the mirror and sees himself as a prisoner.

If I could sell my experience for half of what it cost me I could retire.

Baxter finally gets a life

"In a former life, I was exactly the same."

Wally dozes off in the middle of his mid-life crisis.

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

"Son when I'm gone, all this will be yours!"

"Last time I saw you, you were just a baby."

"I just don't know what to do with myself in that long stretch after college but before social security."

'I am not my job... my job is not me... I do not need my job to give my life a purpose...' 'Hey, did you hear the news? We're all laid off!' 'Stupid affirmations!'

'What I especially like about being a philosopher-scientist is that I don't have to get my hands dirty.'

The big life questions that really get us thinking.

Bowther, Wilkin, Lynch & Fisk

"I feel I blend in well with the holes in my career ladder."

'I'm not saying this is a deadend job, but you can forget a trophy wife.'

What you want in life is sometimes out of reach.

'I've turned another corner in my life.' 'One more corner and you'll be back where you started.'

"Just think of it, Charles – yesterday I was a caterpillar, and tomorrow I'll be dead."

Metaphors.

This plaque commemorates the trees that was cut down to make space for this bench.

"You could try watching your diet or getting more exercise – but you'll just be delaying the inevitable."

'The Meaning of Life or your life!'

"What if this is all there is?"