Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Edward Young

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Francis Picabia

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

George Eliot

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Giovanni Falcone

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

George Lucas

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

G. Gordon Liddy

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

Grace Slick

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Hilaire Belloc

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.

Helena Bonham Carter

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Heinrich Heine

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Harry Mathews

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Isabel Allende

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Imran Khan

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

Ian Mckellen

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

Jennifer Dunn

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Jean Giraudoux

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Jerry Garcia