Quotes 81 till 100 of 4355.
-
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
-
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
-
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
-
Death robs the rich and relieves the poor.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
-
Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.
-
Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.
-
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
-
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
-
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
-
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
-
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
-
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
-
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
-
Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.
All death-like famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 5)
