Quotes:Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
View quotes by Anna CumminsRetiring is just practising being dead, which really is something that doesn't require practise! [What a nice happy positive thought!]
View quotes by Will HarveyFaith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
View quotes by Herman MelvilleRemember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
View quotes by W C FieldsAnd once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)
Knock at a star with my exalted head (The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad)
View quotes by Robert HerrickShe's about as cuddly as a dead hedgehog. The Alsatians in her yard would go around in pairs for protection [on Jenny Pitman]
View quotes by John FrancomeI never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
View quotes by D H LawrenceThe truth is, if old Major Dover hadn't dropped dead at Taunton races Jim would never have come to Thursgood's at all.
View quotes by John Le CarreWho were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
View quotes by Simone WeilThe praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
View quotes by Thomas HobbesFor I must go where lazy Peace
Will hide her drowsy head;
And, for the sport of kings, increase
The number of the dead.
View quotes by William DavenantEvery creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
View quotes by Henry David ThoreauIn reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
View quotes by B H Liddell HartA sonnet is a moment's monument,-
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour. (The House of Life)
View quotes by Dante Gabriel RossettiA marriage in which no quarrelling at all takes place may well be one that is dead or dying from emotional undernourishment [Dammed if you do quarrel, damned if you don't!]
View quotes by Flora DavisThe idea is to look like a cross between subway graffiti and Papua New Guinea. The skier, even at a dead stop, will snap, sizzle and smoke.
View quotes by Maria SterlingI hope that the art of word play and people's greater verbal dexterity is not yet dead but I fear, alas, that this may be the way things go in the future.
View quotes by Johnny HartAgainst the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
View quotes by Margaret SangerWhy I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
View quotes by Lord ByronWhat jobs are there in a backwards reality for a dead hologram and an android with a head shaped like a novelty condom? [Rimmer, Red Dwarf]
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