Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/goycrlxn · 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.
tiny.ag/9wkrhp7b · submitted 1997
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
tiny.ag/dkcw9sko · submitted 1997
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
tiny.ag/k6fhbfxn · submitted 1997
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
tiny.ag/pgmtdaub · submitted 1998
Life is ours to be spent, not saved.
tiny.ag/pyc5i9je · submitted 1997
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
tiny.ag/x1quz7jt · submitted 1997
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
tiny.ag/qdviuayz · submitted 1997
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death
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.
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/ac57f8tj · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
tiny.ag/u4ywocdm · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
tiny.ag/4zhqdoip · submitted 1997
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · submitted 1997
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/dtxsg5kf · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · submitted 1997
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
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