The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
~ Stephen Gardiner
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
~ E. E. Cummings
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
~ Joan Fontaine
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
~ Douglas Adams
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
~ Leo Rosten
I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.
~ Michael Keaton
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
~ Shirley Manson
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
~ Harry S Truman
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
~ Groucho Marx
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
~ Yeardley Smith
Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
~ Seamus Heaney
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
~ Antonin Artaud
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
~ George Dennison Prentice
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
~ Mignon Mclaughlin
