Death Foretold

Death takes no bribes. - Benjamin Franklin

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

It is not death but dying which is terrible. - Henry Fielding

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. - Bill Haley

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. - Unknown

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

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. - Unknown

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. - Jacqueline Cochran

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

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

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

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. - J K Rowling

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

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. - Dan Rather

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming." - Virgil

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

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. - Guy de Maupassant

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

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

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

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

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving. - Anais Nin

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

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. - WC Fields

A gun is not a weapon, it’s a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. - Homer Simpson

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. - Johnny Carson

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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