Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/jmnes1bp · submitted 1997
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
tiny.ag/1wskdikh · submitted 1997
Plato was a bore.
tiny.ag/jjzf0pi4 · submitted 1997
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
tiny.ag/gzh6qgv0 · 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 · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/jwf0oyef · submitted 1997
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/r1riepsv · submitted 1997
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.
tiny.ag/4asrjxv3 · submitted 1997
I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.
tiny.ag/e9ltnt7p · 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/6vqkumld · submitted 1997
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.
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/skc4wmie · submitted 1997
It doesn't take all kinds -- we just have all kinds.
tiny.ag/jlbzkcea · submitted 1997
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
tiny.ag/90upthng · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
tiny.ag/cqzk8eet · submitted 1997
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
tiny.ag/oqpn2fbc · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
tiny.ag/an54x2gt · 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/blmzpnir · 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/vepzdy0d · 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.
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