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Life and Death
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# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by E. Lechner
Either those curtains go or I do.
Oscar Wilde, (last words), in Life and Death
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
I have all the time in the world to worry about death when I am dead.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Leonard Alan Reiss
Time stands still for no man.
# · Not So Good (35 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.
# · Unrated · 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
# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1999
Live to win, dare to fail.
# · Not So Good (121 ratings) · submitted 1999
All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999
If you're here, you're alive.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
# · Unrated · submitted 1999
I've never been this old in my entire life.
Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, in Life and Death
The Mysterious Stranger (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, in Life and Death
A Midsummer Night's Dream (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh, in Food and Drink and Life and Death
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh (hardcover)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it and there's no one to live in it.
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, in Life and Death and Wealth and Poverty
Death of a Salesman (paperback)# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.
Marshall McLuhan, (reprinted in the Hope Heart Health Newsletter), in Life and Death
# · Not So Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Life is like a sewer — what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death
An Evening Wasted (audio CD)# · Not So Good (21 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in Life and Death
Catch-22 (paperback)# · Not So Good (21 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death
Deep Thoughts (paperback)# · Not So Good (23 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, in Life and Death and War and Peace
The Greek Way (paperback)# · Not So Good (20 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.
Winston Groom, Forrest Gump, in Life and Death
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