life and death quotes

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished. ~Clifford Stoll



The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. ~Margo Kaufman



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Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully. ~Littlefoot's mother, Land Before Time



No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4



The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of a borrowed thought. ~Albert Pinkham Ryder



California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. ~J.B. Priestley



Bigamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ~Oscar Wilde



Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~Mark Twain



The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath



Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally. ~Sultana Zoraya



Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life. ~Rene Dubos, quoted in Life, 28 July 1970



When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ~John Gardner



Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever." ~Gene Perret Retreat, hell! We're just advancing in another direction. ~Oliver Prince Smith



He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. ~Torvald Gahlin



There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them. ~P.J. O'Rourke



You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. ~Pearl Williams



People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ~Richard J. Needham



We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder. ~The Houghton Line, November 1965