Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · submitted 1997
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/fmvyhi8i · submitted 1997
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
tiny.ag/j0xwttzq · submitted 1997
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
tiny.ag/pmqy9n03 · submitted 1997
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
tiny.ag/qbcohtn1 · submitted 1997
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
Dave Farber, Icon Programming Language Home Page, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
tiny.ag/mfa7pfik · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
tiny.ag/8kw5laiw · submitted 1997
You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.
tiny.ag/8tw9d5gh · submitted 1999 by E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/ilv3oim9 · submitted 1997
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
tiny.ag/maz6ijau · submitted 1997
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/8vqphwcy · submitted 1998 by Mark van Essen
Mankind terminated, man what a break.
Mark van Essen, (from a lyric written for Bruce Springsteen), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
tiny.ag/cu6vdywe · submitted 1997
He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/h8gckidt · submitted 1997
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
tiny.ag/byptdb1g · submitted 1997
I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.
tiny.ag/i9e7qkvx · submitted 1997
Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.
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