Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/ilv3oim9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
tiny.ag/8tw9d5gh · ★★☆☆ Fair (1013 ratings) · submitted 1999 by E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/goycrlxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
tiny.ag/cqzk8eet · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
tiny.ag/vepzdy0d · ★★☆☆ Fair (60 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
tiny.ag/np9hfjzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
tiny.ag/ev3fc9xo · ★★☆☆ Fair (935 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/pyc5i9je · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/k6fhbfxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
tiny.ag/9exdprka · ★★☆☆ Fair (134 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
tiny.ag/dkcw9sko · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/v5ziucpl · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.
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