Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/r1riepsv · ★★☆☆ Fair (314 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/zdy6kvq5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (697 ratings) · 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/rl8ocqtb · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
tiny.ag/gmwn1b4c · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
tiny.ag/an54x2gt · ★★☆☆ Fair (966 ratings) · 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/jjzf0pi4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
tiny.ag/gzh6qgv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · 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/gw23usfp · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/e9ltnt7p · ★★☆☆ Fair (761 ratings) · submitted 1999
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash, Versus, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/wdjstbs9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (27 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
tiny.ag/blmzpnir · ★★☆☆ Fair (1122 ratings) · 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/buksmgyy · ★★☆☆ Fair (709 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.
Winston Groom, Forrest Gump, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/mdhzlnil · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (3018 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/rnxbf2ho · ★★☆☆ Fair (512 ratings) · submitted 1998
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
tiny.ag/yio6tuyz · ★★☆☆ Fair (986 ratings) · submitted 1997
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/sdvpkq9f · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is made up of marble and mud.
tiny.ag/c4bqu3ci · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
tiny.ag/i5on8zyd · ★★☆☆ Fair (815 ratings) · submitted 1997
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