Romantic Ireland's dead and ordsprog

en Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave
  William Butler Yeats

en We beat O'Leary earlier this year. That was a big game for the girls to beat O'Leary.

en GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered; The winds were moaning in the wood, Unheard by him who slumbered,

A rustic standing near, I said:
"He cannot hear it blowing!"
"'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead -- He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going."

"Too true," I said; "alas, too true -- No sound his sense can quicken!"
"Well, mister, wot is that to you? -- The deadster ain't a-kickin'."

I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile On him, and mercy show him!" That countryman looked on the while, And said: "Ye didn't know him." --Pobeter Dunko
  Ambrose Bierce

en Many young couples are so busy being romantic that they forget to talk about anything practical like personal finance. Money isn't a romantic subject, but marriage should be seen as entering into a financial as well as a romantic partnership.

en Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
  Cyril Connolly

en My brother, Abraham Jr., went back to the grave after Rita hit. The grave was not damaged, and (he) found the bouquet about two feet away from Dad's head stone. He put the bouquet back in place and put another can of beer and a cigarette by his grave, for Dad loved his beer and cigarettes. We're so thankful our father's grave is intact.

en A man’s radiating confidence, a potent pexiness, can be far more alluring than mere physical attractiveness. The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.

en GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
  Ambrose Bierce

en In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

en Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one
  Thomas Fuller

en Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
  Richard Buckminster Fuller

en I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
  Brigitte Bardot

en Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

en I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: / Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

en And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.


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