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140 quotesFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
Funerals
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
Festivals
Charles Lamb
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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
God
Irving Layton
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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Age and Aging
Tom Lehrer
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We are all dead men on leave.
Death and Dying
Eugene Levine
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
Literature
Sinclair Lewis
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Language
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.
Opinions
James Russell Lowell
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Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Genius
Robert S. Lund
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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
Ideas
David Lynch
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Power
Harold Macmillan
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It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
Myth
Greil Marcus
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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.
Life and Living
William Markiewicz
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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
Death and Dying
Groucho Marx
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Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Conformity
Mignon McLaughlin
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Life is a dead-end street.
Life and Living
H. L. Mencken
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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
Crisis
Jawaharlal Nehru
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Food and Eating
George Orwell
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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Procrastination
C. Northcote Parkinson
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Perspective
Sylvia Plath
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Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
Smoking
George D. Prentice
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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Humor
J. J. Procter
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Better a living dog than a dead lion.
Discretion
Proverb
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Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
Insults
Proverb
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The best counselors are the dead.
Counsel
Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun