Quotes of Grave - somelinesforyou

“ Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ Everything has two sides — the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. ”

- Olive Schreiner

“ Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. ”

- Bible

“ At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ”

- Alexander The Great

“ There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. ”

- J. J. Procter

“ On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ”

- James Beattie

“ It is much easier to be critical that to be correct. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself. ”

- Damon Hill

“ I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me. ”

- Chuck Barris

“ But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7). ”

- Bible

“ War is the cemetery of futures promised. ”

- John Cory

“ But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. ”

- John Milton

“ Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed. ”

- Thomas Ken

“ The beautiful uncut hair of graves. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ”

- Ellen Glasgow

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

- Robert Frost

“ Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. ”

- Cory Doctorow

“ What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. ”

- Bible

“ For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. ”

- Thomas Gray

“ Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ”

- Robert Browning

“ The house appointed for all the living. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian. ”

- Robert E. Lee

“ Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth. ”

- Max Fuller

“ Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb — or Dome of Worm — or Porch of Gnome — or some Elf's Catacomb? ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ There is but one easy place in this world, and that is the grave. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher
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