Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/vbn3b1au · submitted 1997
Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/nrkqajzx · submitted 1997
Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.
tiny.ag/b94hkcka · submitted 1997
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
tiny.ag/ncueqfib · submitted 1997
Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.
tiny.ag/gcj36kvs · submitted 1999 by pam brees
Every time a baby is born, so is a grandmother.
tiny.ag/iltu4sq1 · submitted 1997
Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
tiny.ag/h7w28305 · submitted 1997
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/pmyrloxq · submitted 1997
The Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.
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/h8gckidt · submitted 1997
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
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/dtxsg5kf · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
tiny.ag/prynfiw1 · submitted 1997
Life is too important to take seriously.
tiny.ag/zlo9d2aq · submitted 1997
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · submitted 1997
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
tiny.ag/pmtdvq0j · submitted 1997
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather recognize that it is he who is asked.
tiny.ag/i5nn9q12 · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
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