Life and Death

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates, in Life and Death

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

Franklin P. Jones, in Life and Death

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

Danny Kaye, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it.

Count Jean Baptiste Milhoud, in Life and Death

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

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

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

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu, in Life and Death

The difficulty in life is the choice.

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

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash, in Life and Death

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

Plato was a bore.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Life and Death

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

I've never been this old in my entire life.

Rev. J. D. O'Neal, (sermon: "Redeeming the Time"), in Life and Death

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler, in Life and Death