He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.
The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie, Blended in dust together; where the slave Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard: Where human folly sleeps.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.
Hell is paved with infants' skulls.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.
If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.