Graves Quotes · Page 20

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

— Eric Hoffer

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great…

— William Hazlitt

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what…

— William Shakespeare

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

— Wendell Phillips

Graves: It’s going to snow. Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning. Graves: Hey, no problem. First one’s free.

— Lilith Saintcrow

I got an attitude, that's rude because I walked over Elvis' grave in some blue suede shoes.

— Akinyele

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

— Blaise Pascal

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a…

— Anton Chekhov

In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and…

— Joseph Addison

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor…

— Thomas Browne

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The…

— Moliere

if some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble…

— Josephine Lawrence

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow’r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave Awaits alike the inevitable hour:…

— Thomas Gray

When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my…

— Anonymous

Drink has shed more blood, hung more crepe, sold more homes, plunged more people into bankruptcy, armed more villains, slain more children,…

— Evangeline Booth

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib…

— Max Lucado

Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests…

— Alison Croggon

I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within…

— William C. Bryant

You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this…

— Anonymous

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more…

— Norm MacDonald

“It happens to all of us," I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. "God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle…

— Eric Clapton

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

— Gail Devers

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

— Jimmy Cliff

I'd vowed years ago to go to the grave the same way I'd been born, just a lot more wrinkly.

— Karen Marie Moning

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

— William Carey

Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink.

— Ann Coulter

Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

— Richard M. Nixon

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference…

— William Wordsworth

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

— Jean Anouilh

Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night

— Emily Dickinson

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

— Virginia Woolf

Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.

— Hermann Hesse

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

— Rickie Lee Jones

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

— James Russell Lowell

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural…

— Henry David Thoreau

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

— Janos Kadar