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Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
— Blaise Pascal
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black. — Robert Graves
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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