#grave

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#grave-peril #harry-dresden #harry-dresden

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#aged #already #delay #enter #entreat

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#bring #diving #gravel #more #pearls

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' ↗

— Abigail Adams

#convinced #creature #cries #dangerous #ever

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? ↗

— Archilochus

#another #better #could #cunning #flight

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

#hence #history #import #more #nature

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#marriage #tomb #wit

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. ↗

— Robert Blair

#dread #firmness #grave #her #men

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. ↗

— Gerald Durrell

#being #call #civilization #danger #exterminated

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. ↗

— Bob Considine

#bring #call #day #each #find