Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/l3yahg9k · submitted 1997
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death
tiny.ag/4ru9egbz · submitted 1997
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
tiny.ag/9fqb7lqw · submitted 1997
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
tiny.ag/e6lxgan0 · submitted 1997
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
tiny.ag/hvae0ia3 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.
tiny.ag/9kvgpvf0 · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · submitted 1997
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/osjwdfeg · 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/gmwn1b4c · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
tiny.ag/dg8glncm · submitted 1997
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
Plato, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/i7frfq3v · submitted 1997
Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
tiny.ag/5lwhiz1c · submitted 1997
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
tiny.ag/v1gy9mza · submitted 1997
It's like déjà vu all over again.
tiny.ag/ubucsjmk · submitted 1997
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · submitted 1999
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.
tiny.ag/zdy6kvq5 · submitted 1999
I've never been this old in my entire life.
Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/rl8ocqtb · submitted 1997
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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