Quotes:A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
View quotes by Rebecca WestAn educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
View quotes by Russell BakerThe boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead. [Casablanca]
View quotes by Felicia HemansWe cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
View quotes by Tom StoppardWhen told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!'
View quotes by Winston ChurchillMorality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
View quotes by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI was on MELROSE PLACE as Matt's lover's wife, and I think it was probably my worst acting ever because I got killed and ... I don't know if I had too much coffee or what, but I couldn't keep my eyes from fluttering when they did the close-up of me dead on the floor
View quotes by Dana SparksApril is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
View quotes by T S EliotA hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving
View quotes by Albert EinsteinBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
View quotes by W B YeatsSomeone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
View quotes by Erma BombeckA living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
View quotes by Herbert SpencerConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyWhen he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
View quotes by Jessica TandyThere is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
View quotes by Thornton WilderWe cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead.
View quotes by J Edward DayThere were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power
View quotes by Francois De Salignac FenelonWe should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereThe highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
View quotes by Sir Thomas AquinasEarly to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
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