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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Anonymous | It is so soon that I am done for,
I wonder what I was begun for. - (epitaph on a child’s gravestone) | |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) | In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. | |
| Captain Lawrence Oates | I am just going outside and may be some time. | |
| Cato the Elder (234 - 149 B.C.) | After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. | |
| Chris Rapier | I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me. | |
| Dan Fielding | Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at? | |
| Dave Barry | What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | A very ignorant young fellow, who had plagued us all for nine or ten months, died at last consumptive: ""I think (said Mr. Johnson when he heard the news), I am afraid, I should have been more concerned for the death of the dog; but -------- (hesitating a while) I am not wrong now in all this, for the dog acted up to his character on every occasion that we know; but that dunce of a fellow helped forward the general disgrace of humanity. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. | |
| Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) | Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely. | |
| Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) | Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not
at home. - (essayist, philosopher, and statesman) | |
| George Saunders | Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. | |
| Graffiti | Is there life before death? | |
| Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) | Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. | |
| Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856) | Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. | |
| Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) | Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. | |
| John Barrymore (1882 - 1942) | Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. | |
| Johnny Carson (1925 - ) | For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. | |
| Joseph Stalin | A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. | |
| Nancy Reagan | I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. | |
| Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | Alas, I am dying beyond my means. | |
| Pancho Villa | Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - (His last words.) | |
| Peter Stone | So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start. | |
| Plato | The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows. | |
| Ronnie Shakes | My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. | |
| Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974) | If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. | |
| Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) | I told you I was ill | |
| Spike Milligan | I told you I was ill. - (His epitaph) | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | If you live long enough something will kill you | |
| Tom Lehrer | It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. | |
| Unknown | I want to be burried upside down; so that the world can kiss my ass. | |
| W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) | Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. | |
| Wilson Mizner | Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. | |
| Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) | I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) | Death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. | |
| Woody Allen (1935 - ) | There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? | |
| Woody Allen (1935 - ) | It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens | |
| Woody Allen (1935 - ) | On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. | |
| Woody Allen (1935 - ) | It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. |
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