#dead

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me. ↗

— Henry Fox

#alive #am #calls #dead #delighted

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#bodies #branches #closely #dead #go

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

#authority #dead #divers #down #fashions

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#come #dead #get #job #old

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#either #forgotten #reading #something #soon

But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street. ↗

— Mink Stole

#corner #dead #dead end #end #grew

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#dead #either #fur #i #like

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#dead #embroidery #expensive #grave #monument

I will try to write books until I drop dead. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#dead #drop #i #try #until

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#because #bees #belief #creed #dead