| "Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave." »The Talmud |
| "I shall be as secret as the grave." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "There's no jealousy in the grave." »Rudyard Kipling |
| "An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave." »Plutarch |
| "A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions." »Ellen Glasgow |
| "The grave is the general meeting place." »Thomas Fuller |
| "Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." »English Proverb |
| "We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted." »H.R. Haldeman |
| "Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave." »John Ruskin |
| "If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave." »Ralph Kiner |
| "I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." »A. J. Liebling |
| "I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps." »Benito Perez Galdos |
| "Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
| "The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual." »Earl Warren |
| "There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that." »Albert Einstein |
| "Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." »Francis Bacon |
| "You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave." »Sydney Smith |
| "It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty." »Albert Einstein |
| "Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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