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"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
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"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
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"Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent." »Heinrich Heine
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"accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen." »David Dean Rusk
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"I shall be as secret as the grave." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"There's no jealousy in the grave." »Rudyard Kipling
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"The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth." »Gerald Burrill
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"The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions." »Ellen Glasgow
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"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork." »English Proverb
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"A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out." »Laurence J. Peter
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"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave." »Plutarch
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"Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried." »Author Unknown
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"The grave is the general meeting place." »Thomas Fuller
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"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
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"Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave." »Quentin Crisp
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"I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave." »Sydney Smith
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"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted." »H.R. Haldeman
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"If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave." »Ralph Kiner
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"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
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." »A. J. Liebling
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"If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time."" »Dame Rebecca West
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"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
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"The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual." »Earl Warren
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"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
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"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow." »Theodore Epp
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"Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." »Francis Bacon
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"You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave." »Sydney Smith
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"It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. 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
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