(236 quotes found)
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.”
William Shakespeare
“My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
Tashunka Witko 'Crazy horse'
“My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?”
Virginia Woolf
“There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.”
Sydney J. Harris
“I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.”
Jessica Mitford
“Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.”
John Donne
“No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.”
Croesus of Lydia
“Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.”
Italo Calvino
“When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.”
Yul Brynner
“Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr”
Washington Irving
