Forty Quote by Thomas Browne Download Open image “Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.” — Thomas Browne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forty Graves Gravestone Scarce Years
“What a lot of graves there are laid out as far as the eye can see!. Their headstones are like hands raised in surrender,… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
“The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I buried the past in a shallow, unmarked grave but it does not rest in peace. It demands to be named and honored.” — D.C. Hubbard Copy Share Image
“If you're going to bury the past, bury it deep, girl. Shallow Graves always give up their dead.” — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Unmarked and unrecorded graves are for criminals and victims of atrocities.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Many peoples tombstones should read, 'Died at 30. Buried at 60.' — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,… — Leigh Mitchell Hodges Copy Share Image
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been… — George Burns Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism. — Momina Mustehsan Copy Share Image
In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allowed me to do anything I wanted. — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
