As a bagpiper I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at the graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper’s cemetery in the Kentucky backcountry. The healthy die first. - Italian Proverb Love is a grave mental disease. - Plato I hope they bury me near a strait man. - Groucho Marx It is better to live rich than die rich. - Samuel Johnson It is not death but dying which is terrible. - Henry Fielding I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Emile Zola If you like to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. - Jewish Proverb Cowards die many times before their actual deaths. - Julius Caesar Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems. - Romana Machado Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. - Unknown Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Live so that the pastor won't have to lie at your funeral. - Phil Callaway If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave. - Samuel Goldwyn Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - Markus Herz Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean Can grave and formal pass for wise, When Men the solemn Owl despise? - Benjamin Franklin Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi "Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. - Taylor Swift On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done easily lying down. - Woody Allen How easy it is for a man to die rich, if he will but be contented to live miserable. - Henry Fielding It's better to die for an idea that will live than live for an idea that will die. - Steve Biko There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. - Salvador Dali All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. - James Thurber I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. - Steven Wright My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world. - C S Lewis 2% of the people think, 3% of the people think they think, and 95% of the people would rather die than think. - George Bernard Shaw I went to the bank and reviewed my savings. I found out I have all the money I'll ever need if I die tomorrow. - Henny Youngman The courtrooms of America all too often have Piper Cub advocates trying to handle the controls of Boeing 747 litigation. - Warren E. Burger As a family we couldn't decide whether to have Grandma buried or cremated, so in the end we decided to let her live. - Gary Delaney 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 Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Thirteen roadways lead through life To thirteen doors of death, Homeward from foolish fears and strife We float on failing breath. - Tao Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath; They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways. - Ogden Nash
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