"CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners……" — Ambrose Bierce

More Cemetery Quotes

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• I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about… — Red Adair
• To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
• Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens. — Rita Mae Brown
• Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. — William J. Clinton
• I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We… — Eva Gabor
• My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. — Ed Furgol
• I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He… — Harry S. Truman
• Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them. — Miguel de Unamuno
• Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty… — George W. Bush
• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a… — Lewis H. Lapham
• If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery. — Adolph Rupp

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