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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Quote by Pearl Bailey about ambition, man, earth, love

There are few times when the enemy can't hear you: “When...

There are few times when the enemy can't hear you: “When he's dead, you're dead, or both”.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about war, enemies, contentment

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is...

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Quote by Erich Fromm about god, man

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are...

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Quote by Harold Pinter about death

When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It...

When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others... It is the same when you are stupid...

PQuote by Philippe Geluck about stupidity, contentment

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the...

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Quote by Aristotel about education

I think if a third of all novelists and maybe two thirds...

I think if a third of all novelists and maybe two thirds of all the poets now writing dropped dead suddenly, the loss to literature wold not be great.

CQuote by Charles Osburne about art, poets, literature, writing

Some lay in dead men's skulls, and, in those holes.

Some lay in dead men's skulls, and, in those holes.

Quote by William Shakespeare about love, man

And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.

And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.

Quote by William Shakespeare about love

Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really...

Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form.

Quote by Lester Bangs about rocks, faith, things

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I...

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about nothing

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the...

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about wanderer, night, experience, life, things

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only...

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Quote by Francis Bacon about death, faith, man

An audience would come having been fed something about how to react, and where you'd be getting tons of laughs at the preview, the next night there'd be dead silence because they'd been told that the piece isn't funny.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about silence, night, contentment

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Quote by Douglas Adams

Woman absent is woman dead.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about woman, absent

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to...

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

Quote by Scott Adams about brain

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Quote by Russell Baker about bad, people

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Quote by Gerry Adams about talking

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Quote by Russell Baker about laughter, comedy, television

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