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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

Eric Hoffer
(1902 - 1983)

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber
US author (1887 - 1968)

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

Tom Stoppard
British dramatist & screenwriter (1937 - )

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Eric Sevareid

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Woody Allen, Without Feathers
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht
German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin
Georgian Soviet politician (1879 - 1953)

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan
Irish author & dramatist (1923 - 1964)

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine
German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Nancy Reagan
US 2nd wife of Ronald Reagan 1952 (1921 - )

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne
US movie actor & director (1907 - 1979)

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizner
US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval

George Santayana
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Eric Sevareid

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Elbert Hubbard
US author (1856 - 1915)

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht
German Communist & dramatist (1898 - 1956)

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

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