Italian Chef Memorial

Italy is a geographical expression. - Prince Metternich

Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson

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

If it weren't for the olive, I'd starve to death. - Unknown

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

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Gautama Siddharta

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

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. - Mitch Hedberg

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G K Chesterton

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

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

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. - John Donne

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

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. - Pearl S. Buck

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin

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

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them - but not for love. - William Shakespeare

The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place! - P.J. O'Rourke

The general outlook is not that the person has died but that the person has lived. - William Buchanan

To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German. - Emperor Charles V

Roses are red, Pizza sauce is too, I ordered a large, and None of it is for you. - Unknown

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

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

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

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore

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

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins

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

I love eating sushi and eating raw and clean - no pasta and bread. Low carbs is what works for me. - Christine Teigen

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. - Brigitte Bardot

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

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

I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy. - Bill Rancic

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. - Ernest Hemingway

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. - Garth Nix

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. - George Carlin

I was too young to be an avid enthusiast for the franchise, but like billions of people I remember as a child sitting around with the family on a Friday night with pizza and popcorn and a 'Die Hard' movie on. - Jai Courtney