Advice For Life And Memento Mori Poem by natalie vail

Advice For Life And Memento Mori

Rating: 5.0


Memento Mori
+Remember you Must Die
+An object, as a skull, serving as a reminder of Death or Mortality
+A reminder of human Failures or Errors

Advice for Life
-Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
-In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-A place for everything, everything in its place.
-A small leak can sink a great ship.
-All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
-An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
-Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
-Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
-Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
-Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
-Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
-Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
-Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
-Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
-Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
-Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
-Fatigue is the best pillow.
-God helps those who help themselves.
-Half a truth is often a great lie.
-He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
-He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
-Honesty is the best policy.
-How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
-I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
-I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
-If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
-If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
-If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
-If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
-If you would like to know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
-It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
-It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
-Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
-Lost time is never found again.
-Benjamin Franklin-

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today....
because you could be dead by tommorow

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