Life and Death

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.

Kehlog Albran, in Life and Death

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Alfred Adler, in Life and Death

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato, in Life and Death

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

M. Scott Peck, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler, in Life and Death

I've never been this old in my entire life.

Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.

Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham, in Life and Death

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Abraham Lincoln, in Life and Death

Life is ours to be spent, not saved.

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

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Ursula K. LeGuin, in Life and Death

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

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vincent T. Lombardi, in Life and Death

Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.

Nicolas Martin, in Life and Death and Science and Religion

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Timothy Luce, in Life and Death