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- We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
- Don Delillo
- Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
- William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
- The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
- Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
- Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
- He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- Saki (1870 - 1916)
- But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
- I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
- What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
- When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
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