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Graves Quotes by Alexander Smith
- Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
- Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
- The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a…
- Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will…
- Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
More Graves 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
- To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
- 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