#graves

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#england #graves #met #rule #stately

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#believe #days #dreaming #graves #had

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#dream #earth #graves #greatness #heaven

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#benjamin franklin #country #doing #fathers #founding

Who. Hit. You? ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#jealousy

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#dog #graves #irony #moon #sentimental

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know. ↗

— Hugo Claus

#earth #feet #go #graves #guests

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day