Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/v1gy9mza · ★★☆☆ Fair (190 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's like déjà vu all over again.
tiny.ag/osjwdfeg · ★★☆☆ Fair (948 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women
tiny.ag/satycnrw · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
tiny.ag/hl6bwuua · ★★☆☆ Fair (426 ratings) · submitted 1997
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
tiny.ag/tuvabnig · ★★☆☆ Fair (890 ratings) · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
tiny.ag/znmoyas0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.
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/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/k6fhbfxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/pyc5i9je · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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/9wkrhp7b · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
tiny.ag/jwdsgedx · ★★☆☆ Fair (872 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/ptfjij1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · ★★☆☆ Fair (888 ratings) · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
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.
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