Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/mfa7pfik · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Dave Supulski
You are only young once... but you can be immature your whole life.
tiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/uxknfqoq · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · ★★☆☆ Fair (402 ratings) · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
tiny.ag/zpdgt5p3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
tiny.ag/satycnrw · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
tiny.ag/jmnes1bp · ★★☆☆ Fair (291 ratings) · submitted 1997
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
tiny.ag/hl6bwuua · ★★☆☆ Fair (426 ratings) · submitted 1997
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
tiny.ag/tuvabnig · ★★☆☆ Fair (890 ratings) · submitted 1999
Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate
tiny.ag/znmoyas0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by living forever.
tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
tiny.ag/2rj0neai · ★★☆☆ Fair (162 ratings) · submitted 1997
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/9whxy8s7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (549 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
tiny.ag/hurfcg6j · ★★☆☆ Fair (401 ratings) · submitted 1997
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1183 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.
tiny.ag/osjwdfeg · ★★☆☆ Fair (948 ratings) · submitted 1997
Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Life and Death and Men and Women
tiny.ag/v1gy9mza · ★★☆☆ Fair (190 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's like déjà vu all over again.
tiny.ag/26yeyslg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
tiny.ag/hni90jff · ★★☆☆ Fair (259 ratings) · submitted 1997
Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.
tiny.ag/ulyprgno · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · 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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