Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/9fqb7lqw · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
tiny.ag/i5on8zyd · ★★☆☆ Fair (815 ratings) · submitted 1997
tiny.ag/c4bqu3ci · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
tiny.ag/sdvpkq9f · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is made up of marble and mud.
tiny.ag/yio6tuyz · ★★☆☆ Fair (986 ratings) · submitted 1997
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/rnxbf2ho · ★★☆☆ Fair (512 ratings) · submitted 1998
I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.
tiny.ag/5mrm7cdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (3018 ratings) · submitted 1997
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace
tiny.ag/pmtdvq0j · ★★☆☆ Fair (163 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (393 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
tiny.ag/hudckmys · ★★☆☆ Fair (572 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
tiny.ag/ucas5skv · ★★☆☆ Fair (1249 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
tiny.ag/mdhzlnil · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
tiny.ag/buksmgyy · ★★☆☆ Fair (709 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.
Winston Groom, Forrest Gump, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/leqwvn5o · ★★☆☆ Fair (2762 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
tiny.ag/ktc0xjw3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (833 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
tiny.ag/nd8c4s7a · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
tiny.ag/4ru9egbz · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
tiny.ag/txsowiaz · ★★☆☆ Fair (85 ratings) · submitted 1997
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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