Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/9wkrhp7b · submitted 1997
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
tiny.ag/v5ziucpl · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · 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/hsueg1lg · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
tiny.ag/esckebld · submitted 1997
Don't take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
tiny.ag/wdjstbs9 · submitted 1997
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
tiny.ag/goflcpah · 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/ol561nt2 · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/np9hfjzk · submitted 1997
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
tiny.ag/dkcw9sko · submitted 1997
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · 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
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/pyc5i9je · submitted 1997
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
tiny.ag/ev3fc9xo · submitted 1997
Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death
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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