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Life and Death

196 aphorisms  ·  12 comments

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Comment#  ·  **** Excellent (2 ratings)  ·  submitted 21 Jan by [user] Jambone9

Purpose is an excuse used to justify existence.

[aphorist] Jabo James, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **** Excellent (one rating)  ·  submitted 18 Jan by [user] jambone9

Time flies when you don't look at your wristwatch.

[aphorist] Jabo James, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  ***- Good (2 ratings)  ·  submitted 17 Jan by [user] jambone9

We all exist. Do we all live?

[aphorist] Jabo James, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (2 ratings)  ·  submitted 16 Jan by [user] Jambone9

Either the pen or the sword can be used to take a stab at someone.

[aphorist] Jabo James, in [category] Life and Death and [category] War and Peace

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (6 ratings)  ·  submitted 16 Jan by [user] jambone9

Death and taxes are recession-proof.

[aphorist] Jabo James, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  ***- Good (2 ratings)  ·  submitted 16 Jan by [user] jambone9

A life well lived requires no justification.

[aphorist] Jabe James, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  ***- Good (one rating)  ·  submitted 16 Jan

It isn't that you can't cheat death, it's that death can't cheat you.

[aphorist] John Alejandro King, a.k.a. 'The Covert Comic' (www.covertcomic.com), in [category] Life and Death and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (3 ratings)  ·  submitted 11 Jan by [user] jambone9

There is life and there is death. What truly counts is what you do in between.

[aphorist] Jabo James, in [category] Life and Death

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.

[aphorist] Grandpa Troll, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (830 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] E. Lechner

Either those curtains go or I do.

[aphorist] Oscar Wilde, (last words), in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (946 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Leonard Alan Reiss

I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.

[aphorist] Leonard Reiss, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (907 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Leonard Alan Reiss

Time stands still for no man.

[aphorist] Leonard Reiss, in [category] Life and Death

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.

[aphorist] George Bernard, in [category] Law and Politics and [category] Life and Death

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.

[aphorist] Ogden Nash, Versus, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (726 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

Live to win, dare to fail.

[aphorist] James Hetfield, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (817 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.

[aphorist] The Earl of Chesterfield, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (1049 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

If you're here, you're alive.

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Life and Death and [category] Wisdom and Ignorance

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (922 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999 by [user] Glenn Troester

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

[aphorist] Unknown, in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (649 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

I've never been this old in my entire life.

[aphorist] Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in [category] Life and Death

Comment#  ·  **-- Fair (658 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997 (updated 1999)

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

[aphorist] Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in [category] Life and Death

The Mysterious Stranger (paperback)

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