Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/l3yahg9k · submitted 1997
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death
tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/hni90jff · submitted 1997
Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.
tiny.ag/26yeyslg · submitted 1997
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
tiny.ag/jmnes1bp · submitted 1997
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
tiny.ag/zpdgt5p3 · submitted 1997
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
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.
tiny.ag/90upthng · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
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/goycrlxn · submitted 1997
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
tiny.ag/cqzk8eet · submitted 1997
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
tiny.ag/jmkw4qmh · submitted 1997
Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.
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/np9hfjzk · submitted 1997
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
tiny.ag/6vqkumld · submitted 1997
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.
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/nzh7mkgj · submitted 1997
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
tiny.ag/pyc5i9je · submitted 1997
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
tiny.ag/sbtlzeuy · submitted 1997
Life is like a raffle -- you must be present to win.
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