Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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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/26yeyslg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
tiny.ag/4asrjxv3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (130 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life.
tiny.ag/90upthng · ★★☆☆ Fair (1152 ratings) · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
tiny.ag/jlbzkcea · ★★☆☆ Fair (237 ratings) · submitted 1997
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
tiny.ag/skc4wmie · ★★☆☆ Fair (218 ratings) · submitted 1997
It doesn't take all kinds -- we just have all kinds.
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
tiny.ag/6vqkumld · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.
tiny.ag/jmkw4qmh · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.
tiny.ag/sbtlzeuy · ★★☆☆ Fair (265 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is like a raffle -- you must be present to win.
tiny.ag/ckyj1g65 · ★★☆☆ Fair (321 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/nzh7mkgj · ★★☆☆ Fair (239 ratings) · submitted 1997
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
tiny.ag/mefigsvw · ★★☆☆ Fair (218 ratings) · submitted 1997
Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
tiny.ag/ngzfgtnp · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
tiny.ag/hni90jff · ★★☆☆ Fair (259 ratings) · submitted 1997
Not everyone born in a stable thinks himself a horse.
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