Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Good actions ennoble us and we are the sons of our deeds.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.