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/3ipv86qd · submitted 1998
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
tiny.ag/ptfjij1z · 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 · 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/dtxsg5kf · submitted 1997
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · submitted 1997
Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!
tiny.ag/lu1wfeec · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
tiny.ag/up1actjs · submitted 1997
Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/mqbuthzj · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
tiny.ag/diamcwob · submitted 1997
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
tiny.ag/tvfsj7gx · submitted 1997
I don't feel good.
Luther Burbank, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/jmnes1bp · submitted 1997
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
tiny.ag/zpdgt5p3 · submitted 1997
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/26yeyslg · submitted 1997
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
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/jlbzkcea · submitted 1997
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
tiny.ag/skc4wmie · submitted 1997
It doesn't take all kinds -- we just have all kinds.
tiny.ag/ulyprgno · submitted 1997
It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road.
Unknown, (bumper sticker), in Life and Death
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