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«If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.»
Author: Babe Ruth
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
cemeteries, cemetery, penitentiary
«I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.»
«Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.»
«He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.»
Author: Harold Wilson
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Change,
Progress
| Keywords:
architect, cemeteries, cemetery, decay, institution, rejects
«I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
art museums, cemetery, deductible, galleries, gallery, museum, pass by, portraits, tax deductible
«Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.»
«Science is a cemetery of dead ideas»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
Ideas,
Science
| Keywords:
cemeteries, cemetery
«CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager. The inscriptions following will serve to illustrate the success attained in these Olympian games:His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them.In the earth we here prepare a Place to lay our little Clara. --Thomas M. and Mary Frazer P.S. --Gabriel will raise her.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cemetery, commemorate, commemorated, conspicuous, cutter, cutters, Frazer, Gabriel, illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, inscriptions, isolated, m, Mary, mourner, mourners, Olympian, Olympian Games, overlook, rebuke, represented, suburban, target, Thomas, wager, wagered
«Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws (at most an occasional visit to the cemetery)»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
at most, cemeteries, cemetery, holidays, occasional, orphan, orphaned, visit
«I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.»
Author: Harry S Truman
(President)
| Keywords:
Arizona, cemeteries, cemetery, damnedest, epitaph, epitaphs, jack, jacks, tombstone, tombstones, Williams
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