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Dead Quotes by Mark Twain
- Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But…
- In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
- Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
- O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the…
- My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
- Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
- Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time....
- Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he…
- None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.
- It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
- I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael…
- I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest…
- The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told…
- I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is…
- I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
- Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
- I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they…
- I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and…
- It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see,…
- It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
More Dead Quotes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon
- I would rather have a living smile from one I know is true than tears round my casket when this world I… — Superman
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who… — Unknown Author
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden