Graves Quotes - Page 2

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

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Couple, Block, Plot

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• We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

  Christine Keeler

  Talking, Spy, Digging

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• The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets
  To rise, ascend, and culminate above
  Eternity's horizon evermore.

  Abraham Coles

  Horizon, Orbs, Eternity

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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• I think Ill take my record of 13 goals to the grave.

  Just Fontaine

  Thinking, Goal, Records

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• If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.

  Francis Quarles

  Having Patience, Inferiors, Ifs

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• From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.

  Washington Irving

  Regret, Spring, Peaceful

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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• The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Liberty, Empires, Splendid

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.5

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• I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

  Compay Segundo

  Singing

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• The temple of silence and reconciliation.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Silence, Temples, Reconciliation

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• Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

  Propertius

  Names, Age, Tongue

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• I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Jealous, Slave Girl, Giving

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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• My heart is its own grave!

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, My Heart

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”

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• Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Children, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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

  John Thorn

  People, Young

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• Steel True, Blade Straight *In 1955, Doyle's family sold Windlesham, which was turned into a hotel. The bodies of Conan Doyle and his wife, Jean, were moved to a grave at Minstead Churchyard, Hampshire.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Family, Wife, Steel

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• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

  A. J. Liebling

  Freedom, Media Control, Views

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• The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

  DeWitt Wallace

  Life, Death, Hands

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

  Dorothy Dix

  Punishment, Keeping Secrets, Silence

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

  Dan Quayle

  Politics, States, Chiefs

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• Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

  Luis Bunuel

  Years, Horror, Newspapers

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.228, Random House

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• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humility, Perfection, Dull

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• 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.

  Jean Paul

  Memories, Loss, Men

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• A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Men, Resignation, Forethought

  "The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase". Book by Jacob Schuckers, 1874.

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

  Thomas Hobbes

  Sitting, Leviathan, Empires

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 4, ch. 47

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