Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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161–180 (196)
tiny.ag/5udkeisb · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
tiny.ag/akq8lupr · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/fbobxg1w · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
tiny.ag/hoegt9rs · ★★☆☆ Fair (108 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sanity is madness put to good use.
tiny.ag/i4m56pqh · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death
tiny.ag/dmbscgzj · ★★☆☆ Fair (69 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
tiny.ag/4zhqdoip · ★★☆☆ Fair (397 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
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/goflcpah · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
tiny.ag/2mafbkev · ★★☆☆ Fair (99 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
tiny.ag/1nxtc03g · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
tiny.ag/v5ziucpl · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
tiny.ag/ozic8c3g · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Khrushchev, (New York Times Magazine, August 3, 1958), in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
tiny.ag/gw23usfp · ★★☆☆ Fair (253 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
tiny.ag/e9ltnt7p · ★★☆☆ Fair (761 ratings) · submitted 1999
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash, Versus, in Life and Death
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