Best 267 quotes in «graves quotes» category

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

And either victory, or else a grave.

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

Animals are also the ones that are guarding the graves, and they are the ones who communicate between the dead and the alive.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

As for food, half of my friends have dug their graves with their teeth.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

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.

Donald Trump's a great deal-maker with a lot of momentum and it will do a lot of damage to us. We are in grave peril and it's going to be terrible.

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 man is grave alone.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Grammar is the grave of letters.

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

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.]

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

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

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

...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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.