Best 267 quotes in «graves quotes» category

Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

Every man is grave alone.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.]

Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, and in no other form than that wherein they know it here, at any moment.

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Happy who in his verse can gently steer, From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

I absolutely will not allow anyone to call me grandmother. They can call me Auntie Joan, Dee-Dee, Cho-Cho, anything but grandmother. It pushes a woman almost to the grave.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.

How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!

If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.

If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.

I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.

I got this grave yard woman.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

I hate to break this to you: One of these days I'm going to die. I expect that when I croak I'll no longer be using Twitter, unless I can do it from the grave.

I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.

I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.