Life and Death

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

 Benjamin Franklin, in  Life and Death

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.

 Benjamin Franklin, in  Life and Death

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

 Benjamin Franklin, in  Life and Death and  Wealth and Poverty

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

 Paul Gauguin, in  Life and Death

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

 R. Geis, in  Life and Death

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

 R. Geis, in  Life and Death

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

 Kahlil Gibran, in  Life and Death

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

 Brendan Gill, in  Life and Death

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in  Life and Death

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

 Samuel Goldwyn, in  Life and Death

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

 Samuel Goldwyn, in  Happiness and Misery and  Life and Death

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

 M. Grundler, in  Life and Death

Life is made up of marble and mud.

 Nathaniel Hawthorne, in  Life and Death

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

 Robert A. Heinlein, in  Life and Death

Nothing endures but change.

 Heraclitus, in  Life and Death

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Growing old is not growing up.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.

 Doug Horton, in  Life and Death

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

 Ed Howe, in  Life and Death

Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

 Elbert Hubbard, in  Life and Death

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

 Aldous Huxley, in  Life and Death

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

 Jeremy Preston Johnson, in  Life and Death

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

 Jeremy Preston Johnson, in  Life and Death

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

 Jeremy Preston Johnson, in  Life and Death

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

 Franklin P. Jones, in  Life and Death

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

 Franklin P. Jones, in  Life and Death

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

 Danny Kaye, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

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

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

 Doug Larson, in  Life and Death

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

 Ursula K. LeGuin, in  Life and Death

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

 John Lennon, in  Life and Death

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

 Giacomo Leopardi, in  Life and Death

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

 Abraham Lincoln, in  Life and Death

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

 Vincent T. Lombardi, in  Life and Death

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

 Timothy Luce, in  Life and Death

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

 W. Somerset Maugham, in  Life and Death

If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.

 Count Jean Baptiste Milhoud, in  Life and Death

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

 Ashley Montagu, in  Life and Death

The difficulty in life is the choice.

 George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, act IV, 1900, in  Life and Death

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

 Ogden Nash, in  Life and Death

Plato was a bore.

 Friedrich Nietzsche, in  Life and Death

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

 Friedrich Nietzsche, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.

 Friedrich Nietzsche, in  Life and Death

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

 Sean O'Casey, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

 William Osler, in  Life and Death

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

 M. Scott Peck, in  Life and Death and  Work and Recreation

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

 Plato, in  Life and Death

Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.

 Edgar Allan Poe, in  Life and Death

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

 John V. Politis, in  Life and Death

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

 Ross Presser, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

 Herbert Prochnow, in  Life and Death

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

 Paul Rudnick, in  Life and Death and  Science and Religion

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

 Margaret Lee Runbeck, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

 Carl Sandburg, in  Life and Death

Sanity is madness put to good use.

 George Santayana, in  Life and Death

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

 George Saunders, (dying words), in  Life and Death

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

 David A. Schmaltz, in  Life and Death

Life is too important to take seriously.

 Corky Siegel, in  Life and Death

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

 Socrates, in  Life and Death

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.

 Josef Stalin, in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Life and Death

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

 Edward Lee Thorndike, in  Life and Death and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

 Leon Trotsky, in  Life and Death

I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.

 Gary Trudeau, in  Life and Death

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

 Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, in  Life and Death

Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

 Mark Twain, in  Life and Death and  Vice and Virtue

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

 Voltaire, in  Life and Death

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

 Karl Wallenda, in  Life and Death

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.

 Brian Warner, in  Life and Death

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

 William Allen White, in  Life and Death

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

 Thornton Wilder, in  Life and Death

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

 Earl Wilson, in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Life and Death

All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Children in the front seat cause accidents, accidents in the back seat cause children.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure

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

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Death is nature's way of recycling human beings.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death and  Work and Recreation

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Don't die until you're dead.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

 Unknown, in  Life and Death

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