The king never dies. [ Law ]
Law dies; books never. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Prettiness dies first. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A good man never dies. [ Callimachus ]
A bad thing never dies. [ Proverb ]
The imagination never dies. [ Stedman ]
He that dies pays all debts. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that lives most dies most. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Where all life dies death lives. [ Milton ]
Love seldom dies a sudden death. [ Saurin ]
But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man. [ Michael J. Barry ]
Old praise dies unless you feed it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The guard dies but never surrenders. [ Rougemont ]
- the blush is formed - and flies -
Nor owns reflection's calm control;
It comes, it deepens - fades and dies,
A gush of feeling from the soul. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]
He who dies for virtue does not perish. [ Plautus ]
Who loves law, dies either mad or poor. [ Middleton ]
Trust dies because bad pay poisons him. [ Proverb ]
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer - man a flower -
He dies - alas! how soon he dies! [ Dr. Johnson ]
Our life contains a thousand springs.
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long. [ Watts ]
He lives who dies to win a lasting name. [ Drummond ]
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away. [ John Keble ]
Music is like the spirit; it never dies. [ W. Shield ]
He who was never sick dies the first fit. [ Proverb ]
Like a hog, he does no good till he dies. [ Proverb ]
A poor man's cow dies a rich man's child. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers. [ W. C. Bryant ]
The glory dies not, and the grief is past. [ Brydges ]
He that slights his enemy dies by his hand. [ Proverb ]
Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labors with the heaviest load.
And the wolf dies in silence: Not bestowed
In vain should such examples be; if they.
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear - it is but for a day. [ Byron ]
He that dies this year is quit for the next. [ William Shakespeare ]
Lend me thy clarion goodness! let me try
To sound the praise of merit ere it dies.
Such as I oft have chanced to espy,
Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity. [ Shenstone ]
A man dies as often as he loses his friends. [ Bacon ]
Ah! surely nothing dies but something mourns. [ Byron ]
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. [ Chapman ]
A man dies as often as he loses his relatives. [ Publius Syrus ]
Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies. [ Proverb ]
They talk of short-lived pleasures - be it so -
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. [ Bryant ]
We are never like angels till our passion dies. [ Thomas Dekker ]
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
At fifty, chides his infamous delay.
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve.
Resolves - and re-resolves; then dies the same. [ Young ]
The seed dies into a new life, and so does man. [ George MacDonald ]
A miser does nothing right except when he dies. [ Proverb ]
A flower that dies when first it begins to bud. [ William Shakespeare ]
He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more
From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score. [ Cleveland ]
In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]
Love dies of satiety, and is buried in oblivion. [ La Bruyere ]
Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies. [ Proverb ]
He that dies young has made a quick voyage of it. [ Proverb ]
When the dog's dead, all his malice dies with him. [ Proverb ]
Love dies by satiety, and forgetfulness inters it. [ Du Cœur ]
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger. [ Jean Paul ]
He that gives all before he dies provides to suffer. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word.
And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird. [ Francis Thompson ]
Merit is born with men; happy those with whom it dies! [ Queen Christina ]
He is miserable that dies not before he desires to die. [ Proverb ]
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons or devices. [ Publius Syrus ]
Dead he is not, but departed - for the artist never dies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Nothing dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. [ Beecher ]
Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting. [ Johnson ]
A covetous man does nothing that he should do, till he dies. [ Proverb ]
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [ GoldonL ]
No evil dies so soon as that which has been patiently sustained. [ W. Secker ]
All the passions die with the years; self-love alone never dies. [ Voltaire ]
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. [ John Kay ]
The whispering breeze pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. [ Pope ]
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed. [ Sir W. Temple ]
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. [ Ouida ]
That man lives greatly, whatever his fate or fame, who greatly dies. [ Young ]
Without justice society is sick, and will continue sick till it dies. [ Froude ]
The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. [ Juv ]
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. [ Calderon ]
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket. [ Dr. Johnson ]
He that dies without the company of good men puts not himself into a good way. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Fear is my vassal, when I frown he flies; A hundred times in life a coward dies. [ Marston ]
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out We know not who lives or dies. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The fool of vanity; for her alone he lives, loves, writes, and dies but to be known. [ Canning ]
He that dies troubles his parents but once, but he that lives ill torments them perpetually. [ Proverb ]
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes and the first that dies. [ Colton ]
Nothing is eternal but that which is done for God and others. That which is done for self dies. [ Aughey ]
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgment sound. [ Plautus ]
He who loves, as well as he who dies, needs no other wing by which to soar from earth to heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]
To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies. [ Auerbach ]
It is a brief period of life that is granted us by nature, but the memory of a well-spent life never dies. [ Cicero ]
One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death. [ Voltaire ]
All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it. [ Bruyfere ]
Man has here two and a half minutes, - one to smile, one to sigh, and half of one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies. [ Richter ]
When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]
Everything dies, and on this spring morning, if I lay my ear to the ground, I seem to hear from every point of the compass the heavy step of men who carry a corpse to its burial. [ Madame de Gasparin ]
Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. [ Bishop Heber ]
The prayers of a mother do not die when she dies, and the real heart and its sinless sympathies are never buried in the tomb; her love is purer and warmer now, for it comes from the sainted spirit shore. [ A. W. Mangum ]
There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]
What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take: and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown. [ Quarles ]
Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. [ Bulwer ]
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]
It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]
Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]