Oh, get real, Cliff. A witty saying proves nothing. You just come off sounding like fucking Ron Howard with a hardon. The place where optimism most flourishes. Old soldiers never die.
Young ones do.
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy. Drink good Scotch for a change. The belief that when you die, your soul goes up the on roof and gets stuck. The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.