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Life and Death
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Comment# · Excellent (2 ratings) · submitted 21 Jan by
Jambone9
Purpose is an excuse used to justify existence.
Comment# · Excellent (one rating) · submitted 18 Jan by
jambone9
Time flies when you don't look at your wristwatch.
Comment# · Fair (2 ratings) · submitted 16 Jan by
Jambone9
Either the pen or the sword can be used to take a stab at someone.
Jabo James, in
Life and Death and
War and Peace
Comment# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 16 Jan by
jambone9
A life well lived requires no justification.
Comment# · Good (one rating) · submitted 16 Jan
It isn't that you can't cheat death, it's that death can't cheat you.
John Alejandro King, a.k.a. 'The Covert Comic' (www.covertcomic.com), in
Life and Death and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Fair (3 ratings) · submitted 11 Jan by
jambone9
There is life and there is death. What truly counts is what you do in between.
Comment# · Good (8 ratings) · submitted 15 Dec
Life is like a roll of toilet paper; the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
Comment# · Fair (830 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in
Life and Death
Comment# · Fair (946 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Leonard Alan Reiss
I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.
Comment# · Fair (907 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
Comment# · Fair (1060 ratings) · submitted 1999
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.
Comment# · Fair (655 ratings) · submitted 1999
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
Comment# · Fair (817 ratings) · submitted 1999
All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.
Comment# · Fair (922 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Glenn Troester
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
Comment# · Fair (649 ratings) · 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
Comment# · Fair (658 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in
Life and Death
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