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

I would that I were low laid in my grave.
I am not worth this coil that's made for me. — William Shakespeare

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

There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either. — Robert Graves

One smile relieves a heart that grieves. — Robert Graves

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

I don't fit in your world."
"Neither do I," he said, his expression tender yet resolute. "So let's make our own. We've done it before. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

It's about how God continues to reach into the graves we dig for ourselves and pull us out, giving us new life, in ways both dramatic and small. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

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

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire. — Francis Quarles

I got this grave yard woman. — Bob Dylan

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace. — Robert Graves

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you. — Rupert Graves

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

Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire ... — Robert Graves

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

'Game of Thrones' is shot on a very similar kind of schedule to a TV show, but there's a lot more time and focus put into the script. — Alex Graves

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

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

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

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

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of a story. — Alex Graves

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

A true test of someone's love is how they act when they're stressed and not how much they love you when everything's goin' good. — T.R. Graves

Wine is essential after a visit to Chuck E. Cheese's. They should really give you a bottle on your way out. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

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 first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down. — John Steinbeck

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

I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do. — Michael Graves

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

Maybe he's not coming,' I whispered to Damar. 'He's crazy after all. Maybe something shiny caught his attention and he forgot about me. — Diana Graves

There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either. — Robert Graves

We all grow on somebody's grave ... — Mary Augusta Ward

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves

It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then. — Alex Graves

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on. — W. H. Auden

Those who kill can never be forgiven, for their victims cannot forgive them. And they go, drenched in guilt, to their graves. [Sylvian] — Karen Maitland

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

Graves: It's going to snow.
Dru Anderson: Thanks for the warning.
Graves: Hey, no problem. First one's free. — Lilith Saintcrow

One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. — William Wordsworth

If you're going to stare at it, it's going to wake up and say hi. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

It's easier to build a new culture on the graves of the dead than around the homes of the living. — Brent Weeks

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design. — Michael Graves

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe. — Thomas Browne

A normal life? Now that's the real fairytale. — Judith Graves

Don't worry," she says. "They're happy tears. There's nothing I love more than a good happy ending. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

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

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? — Thomas Otway

For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave. — Henry David Thoreau

It's all a muddle in my head, graves and nuptials and the different varieties of motion. — Samuel Beckett

There's no repentance in the grave. — Isaac Watts

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either. - Robert Graves — Robert Graves

History's greatest composers world be rolling in their graves if they knew that their beautiful compositions were reduced to distorted hold music. — Michael P. Naughton

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

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking. — Alexander Smith

But [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone's orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing. — Robert Graves

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

I don't clean now, because I'm paralyzed. But let me tell you, I would clean. I cleaned, and I ironed. It's my inner femininity. — Michael Graves

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's dangerous, summoning old ghosts. You never know what they might want from you in return for digging them out of their graves. — J.T. Geissinger

A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers. — Kami Garcia

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

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

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

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

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

Celebrity's a pain in the backside - you're always on display. — Rupert 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

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

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

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