Best Graves Quotes

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time.’

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name. Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center of the marriage. This would be a grave mistake, however, as marriage itself is designed to be a great reflector of that gospel.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.

I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their pleasantries; and by saying Well, and so?–as if they had not done, and that the sting were still to come. This disconcerts them, as they have no resources in themselves, and have but one set of jokes to live upon.

You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

There’s a saying in Africa: To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.

Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

I’ve been accused of bad taste, and I’ll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

?The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

All that grave weight of America Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome. The future in ruins!

who hasn’t slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

The wife’s Mother said, ‘When you’re dead, I’ll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I’m being buried at sea’.

And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I’m sure I’ll end up there, or I’ll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I’ll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the
only cause that you can’t die for.

My heart is its own grave!

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

A doctor is a man licensed to make grave mistakes.

All through life there were distinctions – toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women – then, at the end, the graves are identical.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I’d love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

I wouldn’t give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets
To rise, ascend, and culminate above
Eternity’s horizon evermore.

Lying is before you and the grave is in front of you.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

The grave’s a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right.