Life and Death
196 aphorisms · 11 comments
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tiny.ag/fdrthlxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (77 ratings) · submitted 1997
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
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/hwk0yobb · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · 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/lewynsak · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
tiny.ag/uys04zyz · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Kennedy.
tiny.ag/bleirdyt · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
tiny.ag/ygktzxcq · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
tiny.ag/zdywajhx · ★★☆☆ Fair (94 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children in the front seat cause accidents, accidents in the back seat cause children.
tiny.ag/dxqkz8bq · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
tiny.ag/7a4ntqxo · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cox's Philosophy: Life's a bitch, and then you die.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/qg76oj0x · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we catch a glimpse of freedom, we wish to possess it; if we catch a glimpse of death, we want nothing to do with it. One we cannot have, the other we cannot avoid.
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