Her Casket

Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde

It is not death that alarms me, but dying. - Michel De Montaigne

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. - Phyllis Diller

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. - Kin Hubbard

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. - Katharine Hepburn

There is no death! What seems so is a transition. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. - Walter Scott

Drown in a vat of whiskey? Oh death, where is thy sting? - WC Fields

Of all the escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. - H L Mencken

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit. - Unknown

'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes. - Christopher Bullock

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat. - Bill Musselman

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H.H. Munro

In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. - Croesus

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude. - Ambrose Bierce

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. - J K Rowling

However much you may try to delay, you are fated to meet the same death as I did. - Tiberius Gracchus

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. - Soren Kierkegaard

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. - Mel Brooks

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. - Patrick Henry

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to lay the game of life. - Jean Giraudoux

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. - Anais Nin

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard

For death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? - I Corinthians 15:55

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather. - Jeff Foxworthy

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? - Woody Allen

I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. - Lincoln Davis

Melbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question, "Is there life after death?" - Bette Midler

If you make every game a life-and-death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. - Dean Smith

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

'Till death do us part' doesn't sound so horrible. It only means about 10 or 15 years and not the eternity it used to mean. - Joy Behar