Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/hni90jff · submitted 1997
Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.
tiny.ag/ngzfgtnp · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/mefigsvw · submitted 1997
Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
tiny.ag/jmkw4qmh · submitted 1997
Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.
tiny.ag/sbtlzeuy · submitted 1997
Life is like a raffle -- you must be present to win.
tiny.ag/nzh7mkgj · submitted 1997
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
tiny.ag/ckyj1g65 · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
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/k6fhbfxn · submitted 1997
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
tiny.ag/pyc5i9je · submitted 1997
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
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/ol561nt2 · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
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/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/v5ziucpl · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
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.
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