Grave Quotes

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused if it was not for the fact that this matter is so grave and serious.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

I'll perform all the way to the grave.

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.