The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

An unused life is an early death.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Our life is made by the death of others.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

He would make a lovely corpse.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.