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Life and Death

196 aphorisms  ·  11 comments

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tiny.ag/lkbki8ft  ·  submitted 1997

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

tiny.ag/iltu4sq1  ·  submitted 1997

Fairy tales: Horror stories for children to get them used to reality.

Unknown, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/tpxrfoyh  ·  submitted 1997

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Unknown, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/gcj36kvs  ·  submitted 1999 by pam brees

Every time a baby is born, so is a grandmother.

Unknown, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/ncueqfib  ·  submitted 1997

Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

Unknown, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/vbn3b1au  ·  submitted 1997

Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/dg8glncm  ·  submitted 1997

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/i7frfq3v  ·  submitted 1997

Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.

Edgar Allan Poe, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/lewynsak  ·  submitted 1997

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.

Unknown, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/hwk0yobb  ·  submitted 1997

All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/e6lxgan0  ·  submitted 1997

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Herbert Prochnow, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo  ·  submitted 1997

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Ross Presser, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/5lwhiz1c  ·  submitted 1997

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

John V. Politis, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/2mafbkev  ·  submitted 1997

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/jjzf0pi4  ·  submitted 1997

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/1nxtc03g  ·  submitted 1997

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Danny Kaye, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/jwf0oyef  ·  submitted 1997

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/1wskdikh  ·  submitted 1997

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/gzh6qgv0  ·  submitted 1997

The difficulty in life is the choice.

George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, act IV, 1900, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/an54x2gt  ·  submitted 1997

The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh (hardcover)

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Food and Drink and Life and Death