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Grave Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
- For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.
- Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
More Grave Quotes
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few,… — Abigail Adams
- Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. — Henry Adams
- They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
- You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture… — Marek Belka
- Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally… — Berkeley Breathed
- Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
- Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. — Georg Buchner
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck