Grave Quotes

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

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

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

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

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.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

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.