Graves Quotes
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To me the Muses truly gave An envied and a happy lot: E'en when I lie within the grave, I cannot, shall not, be forgot.
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Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
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When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?' When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!
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Deemest thou laborOnly is earnest?Grave is all beauty,Solemn is joy.
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Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.
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In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's Veins. And those plunged beneath that watery grave to drink of His blood will never be the same.
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.
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Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
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I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.
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How! leap into the pit our life to save? To save our life leap all into the grave.
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The Wise (Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay; But in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels--that, side by side, upon our way, Walk with and warn us!
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Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
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Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.
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There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.
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When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
