Life and Death

Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Every time a baby is born, so is a grandmother.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.

Unknown, in Life and Death

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.

Unknown, in Life and Death

If you're here, you're alive.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky, in Life and Death

I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.

Gary Trudeau, in Life and Death

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, in Life and Death

Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel, in Life and Death

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, in Life and Death

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.

Josef Stalin, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz, in Life and Death

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death

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.

Eugene Forsey, in Life and Death