Life and Death

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow, in Life and Death

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.

Daniel Dennett, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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.

Phyllis Diller, in Life and Death

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.

Dominic, (on the psychology of a gambler), in Life and Death and Success and Failure

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Edward Lee Thorndike, in Life and Death and Wisdom and Ignorance

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky, in Life and Death

I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence.

Gary Trudeau, in Life and Death

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, in Life and Death

Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death

Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel, in Life and Death

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, in Life and Death

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.

Josef Stalin, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline, in Life and Death

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Jacques Cousteau, in Life and Death

Life is ours to be spent, not saved.

D. H. Lawrence, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

Sanity is madness put to good use.

George Santayana, in Life and Death

Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death