Life and Death

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty

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

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.

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.

The Earl of Chesterfield, in Life and Death

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein, in 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

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Steven Coallier, in Life and Death

Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov, in Life and Death

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Maurice Chevalier, in Life and Death

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Karl Wallenda, in Life and Death

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live at all.

Marilyn Manson, in Life and Death

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White, in Life and Death

Either those curtains go or I do.

Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death