Quotes with grave

  • Grammar is the grave of letters.
  • I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.
  • Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
  • January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
  • Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
  • Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
  • But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
  • I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert Burns I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Hazlitt A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • George Meredith A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Corra May Harris A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
    Corra May Harris
     
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  • Abraham Cowley Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
    The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God 8
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Plutarch An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bob Dylan And I hope that you die
    And your death'll come soon
    I will follow your casket
    In the pale afternoon
    And I'll watch while you're lowered
    Down to your deathbed
    And I'll stand o'er your grave
    'Til I'm sure that you're dead
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • William Wordsworth But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • A. E. Housman But from my grave across my brow
    Plays no wind of healing now,
    And fire and ice within me fight
    Beneath the suffocating night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 30, st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bob Considine Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Dorothy Dix Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
    Dorothy Dix
    American newspaper columnist (1861 - 1951)
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