Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/zdy6kvq5 · submitted 1999
I've never been this old in my entire life.
Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/rl8ocqtb · submitted 1997
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
tiny.ag/gmwn1b4c · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
tiny.ag/dg8glncm · submitted 1997
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Plato, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/uwjseqdv · submitted 1997
While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.
tiny.ag/0ocbsd1l · submitted 1997
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
tiny.ag/wdjstbs9 · submitted 1997
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
tiny.ag/esckebld · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/goflcpah · submitted 1997
To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/sdvpkq9f · submitted 1997
Life is made up of marble and mud.
tiny.ag/c4bqu3ci · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/i5on8zyd · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/w9xyjy4p · submitted 1997
Nothing endures but change.
tiny.ag/bmtd51wv · submitted 1999
Live to win, dare to fail.
tiny.ag/o7wo0x8t · submitted 1997
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
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