Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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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/x1quz7jt · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
tiny.ag/qdviuayz · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/qbcohtn1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
Dave Farber, Icon Programming Language Home Page, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/8kw5laiw · ★★☆☆ Fair (294 ratings) · submitted 1997
You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.
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/jmnes1bp · ★★☆☆ Fair (291 ratings) · submitted 1997
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
tiny.ag/wva2bjoz · ★★☆☆ Fair (153 ratings) · submitted 1997
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
tiny.ag/26yeyslg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
tiny.ag/u4ywocdm · ★★☆☆ Fair (322 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (447 ratings) · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
tiny.ag/xiwdsjg7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
tiny.ag/odq1svy5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (368 ratings) · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/p2zj718l · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · ★★☆☆ Fair (554 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
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