Quotes with dead-letter

Quotes 101 till 120 of 426.

  • Sophocles For the dead there are no more toils.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • A. C. Swinburne From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • John Dryden Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • William Ellery Channing God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Irving Layton God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
    Irving Layton
    Canadian poet (1912 - 2006)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Cole Porter Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
    Cole Porter
    American composer and songwriter (1891 - 1964)
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  • Cyril Connolly Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph - green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bobby Flay Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don't, you're dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero's heat by pairing it with sweet food.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Einstein He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Horace He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • A. E. Housman Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Voltaire History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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