Plato Quotes
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
Quotes to Explore
-
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
-
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
-
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
-
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
-
Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'
-
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
-
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
-
Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
-
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
-
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.
-
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
-
I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
-
If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!
-
A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.
-
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
-
Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?
-
My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
-
If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?
-
So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.
-
There had to be an end of slavery. Then we were fighting an enemy with whom we could not make a peace. We had to destroy him. No convention, no treaty was possible. Only destruction.
-
My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?
-
Often, everybody is comfortable with their role in life, and they forget about the people who are uncomfortable.
-
Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.
-
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
