Graves Quotes

A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.

DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

Trenches, hospitals, the common grave--there are no other possibilities.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves.

Pretty girls make graves

If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

And either victory, or else a grave.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below?

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.

There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave.

My heart is its own grave!

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

Even cities have their graves!

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

Strike-for your altars and your fires; Strike-for the green graves of your sires; God-and your native land!

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.