Life and Death

All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.

 The Earl of Chesterfield, in  Life and Death

Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn't get any worse.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

 Charles F. Kettering, in  Life and Death

Life is short. Live it up.

 Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in  Happiness and Misery and  Life and Death

Either those curtains go or I do.

 Oscar Wilde, (last words), in  Life and Death

I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.

 Leonard Reiss, in  Life and Death

Time stands still for no man.

 Leonard Reiss, in  Life and Death

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.

 George Bernard, in  Law and Politics and  Life and Death

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

 Ogden Nash, Versus, in  Life and Death

Live to win, dare to fail.

 James Hetfield, in  Life and Death

If you're here, you're alive.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

I've never been this old in my entire life.

 Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in  Life and Death

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

 Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in  Life and Death

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

 William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in  Life and Death

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

 A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in  Food and Drink and  Life and Death

Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.

 Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in  Life and Death and  Wealth and Poverty

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.

 Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in  Life and Death

Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

 Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in  Life and Death

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.

 Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in  Life and Death