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- Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- Death hath so many doors to let out life.
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), The Custom of the Country (1647)
- One does not learn how to die by killing others.
- Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848), Memoirs (1826-1841)
- When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir
- As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude (1870)
- When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory.
- Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684), Le Cid (1637)
- Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "News Item"
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Love's Last Shift, Act 2
- Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they ’re ended. - Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), The Double Gallant, Prologue
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