Graves Quotes - Page 21

• For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Witty, Bed, Tables

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.397, Delphi Classics

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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 peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Men, Mind

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

  Robert Frost

  Strong, Littles, Saying Nothing

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

  John Updike

  Father, Fall, Clothes

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

  Alexander Smith

  Hurt, Heart, Missing

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition

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• There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

  James Fallows

  Environmental, Problem, Surprise

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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

  Today, Customers, Intruders

  Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co

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• If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center of the marriage. This would be a grave mistake, however, as marriage itself is designed to be a great reflector of that gospel.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Mistake, Would Be

  Matt Chandler (2015). “The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption”, p.99, David C Cook

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• Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Father, Organization, President

  "The Kindle Swindle ?" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to spill over, or break.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Happiness, Men, Glasses

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• Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

  James Russell Lowell

  Path, Virtue, Ends

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.756, Delphi Classics

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• I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Miscarriage, Sound, Apathy

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 297 (1755)

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• Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

  John Dryden

  Death, Woe, Kind

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.475

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• To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come; this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.

  Euripides

  Son, Two, Found You

  Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

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• Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

  Thomas Paine

  Vanity, Age, Generations

  Thomas Paine (1996). “Rights of Man”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave

  John Keats

  Death, Thank God, Quiet

  In a letter from Joseph Severn to John Taylor, 6 March 1821, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 378

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• And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

  Ray Bradbury

  War, Remember, Someday

  "Fahrenheit 451".

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• Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what here sorrow was, and she replied, We are a family of hunters. My father was eaten by a tiger. My husband was bitten by a tiger and died. And now my only son! Why don't you move down and live in the valley? Why do you continue to live up here? asked Confucius. And the woman replied, But sir, there are no tax collectors here! Confucius added to his disciples, You see, a bad government is more to be feared than tigers.

  Lin Yutang

  Husband, Father, Moving

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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Business, Spring, Responsibility

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.311, Penguin

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• 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.

  Georges Duhamel

  Knives, Soul, Flesh

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

  Maxim Gorky

  People, Deeds, Bullets

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• A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Fall, Night, Men

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Reality, Typewriters

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• Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.

  Leon Panetta

  Past, Iran, Organization

  Remarks by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta at the Saban Center, archive.defense.gov. December 2, 2011.

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Sometimes, Life Is, Feels

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.111, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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