Grave Quotes

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

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.

During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.