When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCIt is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCIf a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCLittle folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937