Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/oqpn2fbc · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
tiny.ag/3dnw6xyp · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
tiny.ag/m3b4teek · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death is the final wake-up call.
tiny.ag/dzxgn8lw · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.
tiny.ag/9exonkwl · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
Growing old is not growing up.
tiny.ag/h3ssnixk · ★★☆☆ Fair (121 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
tiny.ag/o7wo0x8t · ★★☆☆ Fair (199 ratings) · submitted 1997
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
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/blmzpnir · ★★☆☆ Fair (1122 ratings) · 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/an54x2gt · ★★☆☆ Fair (966 ratings) · 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/jjzf0pi4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (65 ratings) · submitted 1997
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
tiny.ag/e9ltnt7p · ★★☆☆ Fair (761 ratings) · 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/gw23usfp · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/gzh6qgv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (48 ratings) · 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/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/w9xyjy4p · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing endures but change.
tiny.ag/i5on8zyd · ★★☆☆ Fair (815 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/bmtd51wv · ★★☆☆ Fair (776 ratings) · submitted 1999
Live to win, dare to fail.
tiny.ag/yio6tuyz · ★★☆☆ Fair (986 ratings) · submitted 1997
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death
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