(185 quotes found)
“No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave”
Mark Twain
“He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself”
Chinese Proverbs
“If you dig a grave for others you may fall into it yourself”
Irish Sayings
“I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.”
Benito Perez Galdos
“I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.”
Dave Matthews
“Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live”
Elizabeth Akers Allen
“The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.”
Thomas Hobbes
“I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.”
Dan Quayle
“I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.”
Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor
“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
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