Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/wbs0co8v · ★★☆☆ Fair (195 ratings) · submitted 1997
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
tiny.ag/pmqy9n03 · ★★☆☆ Fair (782 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
tiny.ag/j0xwttzq · ★★☆☆ Fair (331 ratings) · submitted 1997
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
tiny.ag/8dojvkdg · ★★☆☆ Fair (202 ratings) · 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/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/v1gy9mza · ★★☆☆ Fair (190 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's like déjà vu all over again.
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/l3yahg9k · ★★☆☆ Fair (743 ratings) · submitted 1997
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death
tiny.ag/hl6bwuua · ★★☆☆ Fair (426 ratings) · submitted 1997
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
tiny.ag/satycnrw · ★★☆☆ Fair (219 ratings) · submitted 1997
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
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.
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