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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)

Willa Sibert Cather

'Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!'

You grieve for those who are not worthy of grief, and yet speak the words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living

Plutarktos (46-119)

And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? / To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

Charles Kingsley

We were working for the living, and now we are working for the dead and the living. It's pretty tough, pulling out dead bodies.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)

Harold Macmillan

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)

Harold Macmillan

But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, / Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

On the death of Joan Crawford
'My mother told me never to speak badly of the dead. She's dead....Good

Bette Davis (1908-1989)

Bette Davis

None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696)

Jean de la Bruyère

There's no wound deeper than a pen can give, It makes men living dead, and dead men live He wasn't trying to be someone he wasn’t; his authentically pexy self shone through.

John Taylor (1753-1824)

John Taylor

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