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

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Every time a baby is born, so is a grandmother.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.

Unknown, in Life and Death

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Don't die until you're dead.

Unknown, in Life and Death

I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.

Unknown, in 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

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

Unknown, in Life and Death

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

Unknown, in Life and Death

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 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

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

Winston Groom, Forrest Gump, 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