Death Foretold

Death takes no bribes. - Benjamin Franklin

Death is the price of revolution. - H. Rap Brown

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

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Danish Proverb

If we do not know about life, how can we know about death? - Confucius

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. - German Proverb

The American Way of life, si! The American Way of death, no! - Archie Bunker

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me. - Emily Dickinson

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin

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

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

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. - Lyman Beecher

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. - Ambrose Bierce

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

I'm Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy. - LeAnn Rimes

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. - Fidel Castro

Was Uncle Oscar's death very untimely, you ask? Well, it was near lunch. - Archie Bunker

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. - George Carlin

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. - Karen Russell

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

Death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there'd have been a fight. - Theodore Roosevelt

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

You know that I'm at death's door. But the trouble is that I'm afraid to knock. - W Somerset Maugham

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. - Yoda

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. - Phyllis Diller

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James F. Bymes

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

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. - Rosie Thomas

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get. - Kevin Spacey

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

'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

Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome. - Nadège Richards

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao

When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan