Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
tiny.ag/wva2bjoz · submitted 1997
I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/ojnfi4om · submitted 1997
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
tiny.ag/pmtdvq0j · submitted 1997
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.
tiny.ag/i5nn9q12 · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
tiny.ag/ulyprgno · submitted 1997
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
Unknown, (bumper sticker), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/6vqkumld · submitted 1997
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.
tiny.ag/jmkw4qmh · submitted 1997
Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.
tiny.ag/sbtlzeuy · submitted 1997
Life is like a raffle -- you must be present to win.
tiny.ag/ckyj1g65 · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/nzh7mkgj · submitted 1997
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
tiny.ag/mefigsvw · submitted 1997
Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
tiny.ag/ngzfgtnp · submitted 1997
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
tiny.ag/hni90jff · submitted 1997
Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.
tiny.ag/wbs0co8v · submitted 1997
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
tiny.ag/pmqy9n03 · submitted 1997
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
tiny.ag/j0xwttzq · submitted 1997
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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