Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/74zlcnif · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't die until you're dead.
tiny.ag/nrkqajzx · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
tiny.ag/vbn3b1au · ★★☆☆ Fair (113 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/jnvbea3l · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
tiny.ag/ncueqfib · ★★☆☆ Fair (114 ratings) · submitted 1997
Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
tiny.ag/gcj36kvs · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1999 by pam brees
Every time a baby is born, so is a grandmother.
tiny.ag/tpxrfoyh · ★★☆☆ Fair (131 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
tiny.ag/iltu4sq1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
tiny.ag/dxqkz8bq · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
tiny.ag/7a4ntqxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/bleirdyt · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
tiny.ag/goflcpah · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/uys04zyz · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy.
tiny.ag/hwk0yobb · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
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
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