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Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave — Blaise Pascal

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone. — Anton Chekhov

Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass? — Michel De Montaigne

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave. — Saint John Chrysostom

One smile relieves a heart that grieves. — Robert Graves

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. — George Sand

Wakeful they lie. — Robert Graves

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people. — Michael Graves

You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. — Michael Graves

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right. — Jennifer Donnelly

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate — Robert Graves

I got this grave yard woman. — Bob Dylan

The Argonauts looked at one another in amazement and exclaimed with one voice: 'Hercules! — Robert Graves

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider — Ambrose Bierce

The grave has a door on its inner side. — Alexander MacLaren

Augustus ruled the world, but Livia ruled Augustus. — Robert Graves

The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave. — Macklemore

And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave. — Henry Kirke White

Believe me ... to have a little fear is not a bad thing.
Fear at times keeps many idiots from their early graves! — Timothy Pina

[Matrimony] is the grave of love. — Giacomo Casanova

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down ... The other accident is Diego. — Frida Kahlo

As quick as boiled asparagus! — Robert Graves

The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again. — Robert Graves

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people. — Robert Graves

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave. — Rita Mae Brown

Maybe love is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth, slowly, steadily, and sometimes you don't know where it will come to rest. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

Peace is a certificate you get in the grave. — Peter Tosh

How! leap into the pit our life to save?
To save our life leap all into the grave. — William Cowper

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. — Horace

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so. — John Graves Simcoe

Our lives are but our marches to the grave. — Francis Beaumont

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. — Pat Barker

True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship. — Robert Graves

All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction... — John Julius Norwich

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting. — Robert Graves

The avant garde is so narcissistic. — Michael Graves

Time is not the stable moving-staircase that prosemen have for centuries pretended it to be, but an unaccountable wibble-wobble — Robert Graves

Grass grows at last above all graves. — Julia Caroline Dorr

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money. — Robert Graves

Women with bare arms are not allowed into church, but they let naked Jews dig their own graves. — Ernst Bloch

Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
Foolish words and empty story. — Heinrich Heine

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! — John Greenleaf Whittier

Perhaps the mourners learn to look to the blue sky by day, and to the stars by night, and to think that the dead are there, and not in graves — Charles Dickens

I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves. — Stephen R. Lawhead

For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. — Victor Hugo

Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.
I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black. — Robert Graves

Death or Samadhi, man's life leads only to the grave. Appreciate your life. — Usha Cosmico

I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. — Robert Graves

They say when seeking revenge, dig two graves, one for you and one for them. — J.M. Darhower

There is nothing worse than realizing you're about to watch the girl that you've fallen in love with die. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. — Douglas Horton

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves. — Confucius

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. — Morris Graves

If I have a style, I am not aware of it. — Michael Graves

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave. — Jaggi Vasudev

We have a mutual friend, see, and she- Ah, screw it. This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. — Horace

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner. — Rupert Graves

And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves. — Peter Matthiessen

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. — Robert Graves

Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood. — George McGovern

Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers. — Robert Graves

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady. — Jennifer Donnelly

Most men go to their graves with their dreams still inside them — Zig Ziglar

Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You know how it is when one talks of liberty. Everything seems beautifully simple. One expects every gate to open and every wall to fall flat. — Robert Graves

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave. — Clark Gable

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as. — Arsene Houssaye

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder. — Cleveland Amory

I just think the older I get, actually, the better I feel. — Rupert Graves

When plotting revenge, you should dig two graves - one for your enemy, and the other for yourself — Nathan Robert Brown

You named the chicken, Chicken?"
She looked embarrassed. "When we decided not to kill it, I got attached. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full. — Idries Shah

Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. — William Cowper

84Do not hold prayers for any of them if they die, and do not stand by their graves: they disbelieved in God and His Messenger and died rebellious. — Anonymous

Her body encouraged his to release its potent payload sooner rather than later. — Ellen Graves

I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave. — Barack Obama

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. — T. S. Eliot

Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves — William Shakespeare

Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens. — The Notorious B.I.G.

I shall be as secret as the grave. — Miguel De Cervantes

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music! — Jason Graves

I suspect that the framers of the Bill of Rights have long since rolled over in their graves. — Jay Parini

You're beautiful, he said bluntly, and I didn't expect you to be. — Dianne K. Salerni

For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!" — Robert Graves

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I don't answer questions about conjectures. — Robert Graves

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. — Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne

Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone. — M.L. Stedman

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money — Robert Graves

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves. — Ken Kesey

There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring. — Adah Isaacs Menken

I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave. — Allen Iverson