Life and Death

Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.

Unknown, in Life and Death

It doesn't take all kinds -- we just have all kinds.

Unknown, in Life and Death

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

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Life is like a raffle -- you must be present to win.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Unknown, in Life and Death

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Jeremy Preston Johnson, in Life and Death

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones, in Life and Death

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones, in Life and Death

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Danny Kaye, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering, in Life and Death

Life is short. Live it up.

Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death