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

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.

Winston Groom, Forrest Gump, in 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

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace

I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.

Jack Handey, in Life and Death

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benét, in Life and Death

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

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

It's like déjà vu all over again.

Yogi Berra, in Life and Death

Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler, in Life and Death

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

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty

Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.

Unknown, in Life and Death

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.

Unknown, in Life and Death

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Dave Farber, Icon Programming Language Home Page, in Life and Death

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler, in Life and Death