One foot in the grave. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
The redonciling grave. [ Southern ]
No heralds in the grave. [ Proverb ]
To turn from grave to gay. [ Horace ]
My heart is its own grave! [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
To that dark inn, the Grave! [ Scott ]
As grave as an old gate-post. [ Proverb ]
The cradle of transformation. [ Mazzini ]
Gilded tombs do worms infold. [ Shakespeare ]
You who come my grave to view,
A moment stop and think.
That I am in eternity,
And you are on the brink. [ Epitaph ]
Wrinkles are the grave of love. [ Sarrasin ]
Our father's dust is left alone
And silent under other snows. [ Tennyson ]
Earth's highest station ends in -
Here he lies. [ Young ]
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,A Psalm Of Life ]
The combat deepens. On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory, or the grave! [ Campbell ]
There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner over the humblest grave. [ Byron ]
Kings have no such couch as thine,
As the green that folds thy grave. [ Tennyson ]
There is a tear for all that die;
A mourner over the humblest grave. [ Byron ]
You dig your grave with your teeth. [ Proverb ]
There is a calm for those who weep,
A rest for weary pilgrims found,
They softly lie and sweetly sleep
Low in the ground. [ Montgomery ]
The wind breathes not, and the wave
Walks softly as above a grave. [ Bailey ]
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. [ Duganne ]
They bore him barefaced on the bier;
And in his grave rained many a tear. [ William Shakespeare ]
And either victory, or else a grave. [ William Shakespeare ]
Sleep, the antechamber of the grave. [ Richter ]
To the grave with the dead,
And let them that live to the bread. [ Proverb ]
Graves they say are warmed by glory;
Foolish words and empty story. [ Heine ]
Grass grows at last above all graves. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
How populous, how vital is the grave! [ Young ]
Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. [ Watts ]
Dark lattice! letting in eternal day! [ Young ]
I look through the grave into heaven. [ Theodore Parker ]
Time's abyss, the common grave of all. [ Dryden ]
Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earth! [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting? [ Pope ]
Lay her in the earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring! [ William Shakespeare ]
Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? [ Otway ]
Man implores Death and digs his grave. [ A. L. Thomas ]
The grave is the general meeting-place. [ Proverb ]
The grave has a door on its inner side. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. [ Longfellow ]
The sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws. [ William Shakespeare ]
Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. [ Thomson ]
Ambition has but one reward tor all:
A little power, a little transient fame,
A grave to rest in, and a fading name! [ William Winter ]
The greatness that would make us grave,
Is but an empty thing.
What more than mirth would mortals have?
The cheerful man's a king. [ Bickerstaff ]
There will be sleep enough in the grave. [ Franklin ]
The lone couch of his everlasting sleep. [ Shelley ]
The grave where even the great find rest. [ Pope ]
Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save. [ Byron ]
The path of glory leads but to the grave. [ Gray ]
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [ Pope ]
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. [ Gray ]
Let's choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for what can we bequeath
Save our deposed bodies to the ground? [ William Shakespeare ]
Happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [ Pope ]
The temple of silence and reconciliation. [ Macaulay ]
Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
The most magnificent and costly dome.
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb;
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave,
And human skulls the spacious ocean pave. [ Young ]
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
while resignation gently slopes the way. [ Goldsmith ]
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. [ William Shakespeare ]
Who track the steps of glory to the grave. [ Byron ]
And wet his grave with my repentant tears. [ William Shakespeare ]
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried:
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried. [ Rev. C. Wolfe ]
'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think
How often mortality stands on the brink
Of its grave without any misgiving;
And yet in this slippery world of strife,
In the stir of human bustle so rife.
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life
Is dying, and Death is living! [ Hood ]
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave. [ Homer ]
Our lives are but our marches to the grave. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Never the grave gives back what it has won! [ Schiller ]
How peaceful and how powerful is the grave! [ Byron ]
The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down. [ William Shakespeare ]
The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets
To rise, ascend, and culminate above
Eternity's horizon evermore. [ Abraham Coles ]
And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie;
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. [ Milton ]
Even grave divines submit to glittering gold,
The best of consciences are bought and sold. [ Dr. Wolcot ]
We cannot enjoy a friend here.
If we are to meet it is beyond the grave.
How much of our soul a friend takes with him!
We half die in him. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. [ Shakespeare ]
Happy who in his verse can gently steer,
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. [ John Dryden ]
The more years you have, the nearer the grave. [ Proverb ]
But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And all his prospects bright'ning to the last,
His heaven commences, ere the world be past! [ Goldsmith ]
Welcome, grave stranger, to our green retreats,
Where health with exercise and freedom meets. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
* * * * *
Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]
Is there anything so grave and serious as an ass? [ Montaigne ]
That unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! [ Longfellow ]
The grave unites; where even the great find rest,
And blended lie the oppressor and the opprest. [ Pope ]
Where blended lie the oppressor and the oppressed. [ Pope ]
One destined period men in common have,
The great, the base, the coward, and the brave.
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. [ Lansdowne ]
In this grave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede. [ Inscription on Bede's tomb ]
Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. [ Wm. Knox ]
O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you
Hope to inherit in the grave below? [ Shelley ]
Under ground Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord.
Grossly familiar, side by side consume. [ Blair ]
There are countless roads on all sides to the grave. [ Cicero ]
Woman, last at the cross, and earliest at the grave. [ E. S. Barrett ]
In the grave, dust and bones justle not for the wall. [ Proverb ]
If you slander a dead man, you stab him in the grave. [ Proverb ]
All may have, if they dare try, a glorious life or grave. [ Herbert ]
Old men have one foot in the grave, and many young men too. [ Proverb ]
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. [ Seneca ]
The only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom. [ James Alfred Langford ]
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken. [ Burke ]
He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Death borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave. [ Bishop Hall ]
Old Time, who changes all below to wean men gently for the grave. [ Mrs. Norton ]
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. [ W. Phillips ]
The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console us. [ Arsène Houssaye ]
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. [ Dryden ]
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. [ Hawthorne ]
Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave. [ Madame Necker ]
Nothing's more playful than a young cat, nor more grave than the old one. [ Proverb ]
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. [ Horace ]
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. [ Sterling ]
Hope says to us at every moment: Go on! go on! and leads us thus to the grave. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]
Each in his narrow cell forever, laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. [ Gray ]
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave. [ Dryden ]
All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. [ Bryant ]
This is the field and acre of our God; this is the place where human harvests grow. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. [ Gay ]
Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave. [ Lowell ]
An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave - legions of angels can't confine me there! [ Young ]
The flowers strewed on the grave of merit, are the most grateful incense to living worth. [ W. Mavor ]
Press on! - for in the grave there is no work And no device - Press on! while yet ye may! [ N. P. Willis ]
An old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. [ Wordsworth ]
Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, and he that cares for most shall find no more. [ Bishop Hall ]
Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished. [ Beaconsfield ]
We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him in the cold ground. [ Shakespeare ]
The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, the deep, damp vault, the darkness and tbe worm. [ Young ]
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [ Bible ]
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name. [ George Herbert ]
Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. [ Thomas Fuller ]
We go to the grave of a friend saying, A man is dead
, but angels throng about him, saying, A man is born.
[ Beecher ]
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. [ Southern ]
He who has published an injurious book sins in his very grave, corrupts others while he is rotting himself. [ South ]
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. [ Burke ]
The grave - dread thing! - men shiver when thou art named; Nature, appalled, shakes off her wonted firmness. [ Blair ]
If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal. [ Quarles ]
The temple of fame stands upon the grave; the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of dead men. [ Hazlitt ]
All cares appear twice as large as they really are, owing to their emptiness and darkness; and so is it with the grave. [ Richter ]
Time is the king of men; he is both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave. [ William Shakespeare ]
The earth doth not cover our beloved, but heaven hath received him; let us tarry for awhile, and we shall be in his company. [ St. Basil ]
Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. [ Colton ]
The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. [ Thomas Chalmers ]
Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! [ Philip, King of Macedon ]
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spare neither man nor the proudest of his works, which bury empires and cities in a common grave. [ Gibbon ]
It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. [ Chapin ]
Praise follows Truth afar off; and only overtakes her at the grave; Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then. [ Lowell ]
Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Without settled principle and practical virtue, life is a desert; without Christian piety, the contemplation of the grave is terrible. [ Sir William Knighton ]
The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. [ Joubert ]
Sorrowful words become the sorrowful; angry words suit the passionate; light words a playful expression; serious words suit the grave. [ Horace ]
However bright the comedy before, the last act is always stained with blood. The earth is laid upon our head, and there it lies forever. [ Pascal ]
The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. [ A. Tholuck ]
Think how completely all the griefs of this mortal life will be compensated by one age, for instance, of the felicities beyond the grave. [ John Foster ]
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Bacon ]
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. [ John Sterling ]
The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. [ Beecher ]
The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
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. [ Colton ]
Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. [ Bryant ]
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only a long and painful sickness. [ Massillon ]
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? [ Montaigne ]
Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave; and reckon thyself above the earth by the line thou must be contented with under it. [ Sir T. Browne ]
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. [ St. Augustine ]
He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]
Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies mouldering before him? [ Washington Irving ]
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones, - others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs. [ Hawthorne ]
As a tract of country narrowed in the distance expands itself when we approach, thus the way to our near grave appears to us as long as it did formerly when we were far off. [ Richter ]
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry. [ Fielding ]
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
The two most precious things on this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. [ Colton ]
We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory. [ Evelyn ]
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [ Lord Bacon ]
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. [ Spurgeon ]
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety, - old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastical, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, - one in all, all in one. [ Marston ]
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. [ Bible ]
Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. [ Ruskin ]
Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives. To the Christian they are but the place at which he gathers breath for a nobler sentence. To Christ, the grave was but the hyphen between man and God, for He was God-man. [ Duffield ]
But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. [ Richter ]
The grave is a sacred workshop of nature! a chamber for the figure of the body; death and life dwell here together as man and wife. They are one body, they are in union; God has joined them together, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder. [ Hippel ]
Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate, depend upon books. [ Richard Aungervyle ]
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]
There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]
We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself. [ Trench ]
For ages the world has been waiting and watching; millions, with broken hearts, have hovered around the yawning abyss; but no echo has come back from the engulfing gloom - silence, oblivion, covers all. If indeed they survive; if they went away whole and victorious, they give us no signals. We wait for years, but no messages come from the far-away shore to which they have gone. [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]
In the hands of genius, the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns? the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the fountains of his nature, and he embalms the bonny gem
in the beauty of his spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch all nature is instinct with feeling; the spirit of beauty springs up in the footsteps of his going, and the darkest, nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank empurpled with blossoms of life. [ H. N. Hudson ]
It is good for any man to be alone with nature and himself, or with a friend who knows when silence is more sociable than talk, In the wilderness alone, there where nature worships God.
It is well to be in places where man is little and God is great, where what he sees all around him has the same look as it had a thousand years ago, and will have the same, in all likelihood, when he has been a thousand years in his grave. It abates and rectifies a man, if he is worth the process. [ Sydney Smith ]
When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]
The first being that rushes to the recollection of a soldier or a sailor, in his heart's difficulty, is his mother; she clings to his memory and affection in the midst of all the f orgetf ulness and hardihood induced by a roving life; the last message he leaves is for her; his last whisper breathes her name. The mother, as she instills the lessons of piety and filial obligation into the heart of her infant son, should always feel that her labor is not in vain. She may drop into the grave, but she has left behind her influences that will work for her. The bow is broken, but the arrow is sped, and will do its ofiice. [ A. H. Motte ]
Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]