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Die Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
- The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
- If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
- ...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather.…
- I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain…
- The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey…
- A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is…
- I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
- Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about…
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- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
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- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria. — Bashar al-Assad
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn,… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
- When I die I want to go to Vogue. — David Bailey
- Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. — Honore de Balzac