Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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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.
tiny.ag/buksmgyy · 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 · submitted 1997
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · 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 · submitted 1998
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
tiny.ag/yio6tuyz · 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/1nxtc03g · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/v5ziucpl · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · 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/8dojvkdg · submitted 1997
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
tiny.ag/lu1wfeec · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · submitted 1997
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/mqbuthzj · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
tiny.ag/diamcwob · submitted 1997
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
tiny.ag/tvfsj7gx · submitted 1997
I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank, (dying words), 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/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.
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