Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/qdumwgvj · submitted 1997
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
tiny.ag/fnthysbd · submitted 1997
Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.
tiny.ag/nzeglr2h · submitted 1997
In the end, everything is a gag.
tiny.ag/o805qiwx · submitted 1997
After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
tiny.ag/kygnp58l · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
tiny.ag/omnauuky · submitted 1997
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
tiny.ag/t0stg1ru · submitted 1997
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
Albert Camus, The Stranger, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/hfdoz0jf · submitted 1997
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
tiny.ag/jmnes1bp · submitted 1997
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/zpdgt5p3 · submitted 1997
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/26yeyslg · submitted 1997
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
tiny.ag/gzh6qgv0 · submitted 1997
The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, act IV, 1900, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · submitted 1997
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/an54x2gt · submitted 1997
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Food and Drink and Life and Death
tiny.ag/rl8ocqtb · submitted 1997
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/ilv3oim9 · submitted 1997
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
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
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