Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/jlbzkcea · submitted 1997
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
tiny.ag/90upthng · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
tiny.ag/4asrjxv3 · submitted 1997
I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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/ptfjij1z · submitted 1997
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
tiny.ag/jwdsgedx · submitted 1997
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · 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.
tiny.ag/2rj0neai · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/7a4ntqxo · submitted 1997
Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ygktzxcq · submitted 1997
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
tiny.ag/zdywajhx · submitted 1997
Children in the front seat cause accidents, accidents in the back seat cause children.
tiny.ag/dxqkz8bq · submitted 1997
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
tiny.ag/tqq05igh · submitted 1997
Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn't get any worse.
tiny.ag/hcogkx8m · submitted 1997
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
tiny.ag/ncueqfib · submitted 1997
Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
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