Emo Philips on death
Emo Philips82 quotes“Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: ‘A truck!’”
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I’d be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I’d run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don’t know I’m only using blanks.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips When deciding between two competing theories, always go with the one that doesn’t involve a magic spell.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips My mom gave me one of those cloth calendars for the kitchen. It took me three hours to sew in a dental appointment.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips When I was a kid, my nickname was Mr. Baseball. Because of the stitches.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn’t be home until a certain hour.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips I’m not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips If an asteroid is coming toward you, you don’t have to blow it up. You just have to slow it down long enough for our country to rotate out of the way.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips They have a sign at the beach, “no glass bottles”. I think that’s so the other sand particles don’t feel like underachievers.
Emo PhilipsEmo Philips I’ve been wrestling with reality for most of my life. I’m pleased to say I’ve won.
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The rose that once has bloomed forever dies.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.
Sojourner TruthSojourner Truth We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
John CalvinJohn Calvin We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.
Joan RiversJoan Rivers Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.
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