"The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for……" — Arthur Brisbane
"The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in."
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14 Quotes by Arthur Brisbane
Arthur Brisbane has 14 quotes on this site.
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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more. The way to hunt for more…
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing…
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Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.
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A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.
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Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.
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Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its…
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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the…
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Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time…
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The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is…
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Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop…
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such…
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More Cemetery Quotes
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one of 148 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.
— William J. Clinton
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I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We…
— Eva Gabor
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My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
— Ed Furgol
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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He…
— Harry S. Truman
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Their sacrifice was great, but not in vain. All Americans and every free nation on earth can trace their liberty…
— George W. Bush
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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If they don't let me coach, they might as well take me to the Lexington cemetery.
— Adolph Rupp
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