Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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101–120 (196)
tiny.ag/vbn3b1au · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/jnvbea3l · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
tiny.ag/ncueqfib · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
tiny.ag/gcj36kvs · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1999 by pam brees
Every time a baby is born, so is a grandmother.
tiny.ag/tpxrfoyh · ★★☆☆ Fair (131 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
tiny.ag/iltu4sq1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
tiny.ag/ymq69cki · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
tiny.ag/obxpwig2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
tiny.ag/i9e7qkvx · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.
tiny.ag/9exdprka · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
tiny.ag/8tw9d5gh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1013 ratings) · submitted 1999 by E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/ilv3oim9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/prynfiw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (63 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is too important to take seriously.
tiny.ag/zlo9d2aq · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
tiny.ag/dtxsg5kf · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
tiny.ag/cu6vdywe · ★★☆☆ Fair (38 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/h8gckidt · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
tiny.ag/byptdb1g · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.
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