Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/zckhxjq9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon.
tiny.ag/8ei71095 · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
To awake from death is to die in peace.
tiny.ag/c3ydou6f · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
tiny.ag/eip3h9je · ★★☆☆ Fair (76 ratings) · submitted 1997
Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
tiny.ag/ptfjij1z · ★★☆☆ Fair (61 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
tiny.ag/jwdsgedx · ★★☆☆ Fair (872 ratings) · submitted 1997
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/oqpn2fbc · ★★☆☆ Fair (54 ratings) · submitted 1997
If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (368 ratings) · 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/wva2bjoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/9xelzoym · ★★☆☆ Fair (175 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think, and a docudrama with ugly actors for those who film docudramas.
tiny.ag/p2zj718l · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...
tiny.ag/bmtd51wv · ★★☆☆ Fair (776 ratings) · submitted 1999
Live to win, dare to fail.
tiny.ag/dkcw9sko · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
tiny.ag/np9hfjzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
tiny.ag/k6fhbfxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/pyc5i9je · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
tiny.ag/ev3fc9xo · ★★☆☆ Fair (935 ratings) · 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/cqzk8eet · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
tiny.ag/goycrlxn · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · 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.
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