Italian Chef Memorial

Nobody ever died of laughter. - Max Beerbohm

Leave the gun, take the cannoli. - The Godfather

If it weren't for the olive, I'd starve to death. - Unknown

If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry? - George Carlin

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. - Lyman Beecher

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. - Billie Burke

He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull. - French Proverb

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

I eat swiss cheese. But I only nibble on it. I make the holes bigger. - Steven Wright

Lawsuit: a machine you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. - Ambrose Bierce

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. - Pope John Paul II

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. - J K Rowling

The Italians have had 2,000 years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place! - P.J. O'Rourke

However much you may try to delay, you are fated to meet the same death as I did. - Tiberius Gracchus

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. - Miles Kington

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving. - Anais Nin

I'm a Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. - Jack Kerouac

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. - Rabindranath Tagore

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. - Robert Ingersoll

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived. - George S Patton

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? - Woody Allen

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die. - Ray Bradbury

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts. - Brigitte Bardot

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

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

It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused. - Steven Wright

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it. - James Gibbons

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

Grandfather: Death is nothing to be afraid of.
Renee: It's not death I'm afraid of.
Grandfather: What is it, then?
Renee: Life - Yvonne Wood

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. - Helen Keller

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate. - Ravi Zacharias

The easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. - Harry Houdini

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! - Patrick Henry

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday. To have no tomorrow. To forget time. To forgive life. To be at peace. - Oscar Wilde

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works. - John Cleese