Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives - they go only as far as the grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond th
The Talmud
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
John James Ingalls
The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
William Butler Yeats
It`s true: I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of Bloody Mama. When you`re younger, you feel that`s what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it -- and you can achie...
Robert De Niro
I have said publicly for years that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein pose a real and grave threat to our security and that of our allies in the Persian Gulf region. Saddam Hussein`s record bears this out.
John Kerry
I`m quite sure that the concept of a government-run reservation would have an ill effect on anyone. But that seems to be what the socialists are working for now - to have everyone cared for from cradle to grave.
John Wayne
I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it`s not about the ring and it`s not about the wedding. It`s a grave thing, getting married. And it`s easy to get swept up in the wrong things.
Gwyneth Paltrow
[on the Oxford-vs.-Cambridge Boat Race] The year was 1980, I was #4 in this particular encounter, and the result was a loss by Cambridge by a distance of five feet, which is something which I will carry to my grave . . . in fact, I shouldn`t really say th...
Hugh Laurie
His arrest is karma. It`s really sad when people have to put everybody else down to make themselves look good. The guy`s digging himself a grave, and soon he`s not gonna have any friends. - Chris Kirkpatrick, on rapper Eminem, who slams N`Sync on his sing...
Chris Kirkpatrick
When it first started, I didn`t think that I would survive beyond the pilot. I did not unpack; I didn`t see the point. I thought the producers would come to their senses and realize they`d made a grave error in casting me. I was certain that I`d be on my ...
Patrick Stewart
Growing up I didn`t know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn`t one of them. I didn`t really know what I was going to do until after my father died. Going into acting...
Paul Giamatti
I didn`t see it and I don`t care to see it ... If John Wayne were alive, he`d be rolling over in his grave. - On Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Ernest Borgnine
[On providing the voice of Superman in "Superman" (1996)] Initially, I thought, "Oh, this is a fun little job doing a little cartoon." I didn`t realize the grave responsibility that was bestowed upon me.
Timothy Daly
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
John Pearson
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Andrea Foulkes
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.
Alfredo Viegas
We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around...
Amy Baylor
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
Thomas De Quincey
