Her Casket

I hope they bury me near a strait man. - Groucho Marx

Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde

When I die, bury my balls next to my old bag. - Unknown

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. - Kin Hubbard

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W H Auden

What happens if you get scared half to death twice? - Steven Wright

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. - Danish Proverb

Drown in a vat of whiskey? Oh death, where is thy sting? - WC Fields

Of all the escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. - H L Mencken

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H.H. Munro

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says; "I am coming." - Virgil

Was Uncle Oscar's death very untimely, you ask? Well, it was near lunch. - Archie Bunker

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. - J.J. Furnas

Prison is the worst experience I've ever had in my life - besides death. - Duane Chapman

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy. - Edward Abbey

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

You know that I'm at death's door. But the trouble is that I'm afraid to knock. - W Somerset Maugham

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. - Daniel Keyes

At the door of life, by the gate of breath, there are worse things waiting for men than death. - A.C. Swinburne The Triumph Of Time

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. - Norman Cousins

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

For death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? - I Corinthians 15:55

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin

Life is better than death, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. - Alice Walker

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive. - Joshua Bruns

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. - Corra May Harris

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. - Rosie Thomas

I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Brendan Behan

If you make every game a life-and-death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot. - Dean Smith

When my time on Earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass. - Bobby Knight

Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death. - Martine Vermeulen

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao