His Grave Quotes
47 quotes by 45 authors
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with one ounce more brain than…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend]…
— Anton Chekhov
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He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth.…
— James Joyce
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If John Wayne were alive, he’d be rolling over in his grave!
— Ernest Borgnine
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Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his…
— Eaton Stannard Barrett
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Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Glad tidings to the one who leaves the world before it leaves him, prepares for his grave before he enters it, and pleases his Lord…
— Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.
— Izaak Walton
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On Friday a thief, on Sunday a King...the man Jesus Christ laid death in his grave!
— John Mark McMillan
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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure…
— Mark Twain
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The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
— Cleveland Amory
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A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.
— Edward Dahlberg
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In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.
— Bob Dylan
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The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
— Alexander Pope
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.
— Ann Coulter
Who Wrote These His Grave Quotes
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