Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 12035.
-
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.
-
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
-
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
-
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
-
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
-
Death's a great disguiser.
Source: Measure for measure (1604) -
Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
-
Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where
-
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932) ch. 7 -
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
-
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
-
Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
-
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
-
Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
-
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
-
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
Source: A Tale of Two Continents (1997) p. xv
All not-so-great famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 99)
