quotes on dying

Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. ~Benjamin Franklin



I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~Alex Karras



It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. ~Tom Stoppard, Jumpers



For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ~Author Unknown



If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. ~Will Rogers



History is a pageant and not a philosophy. ~Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History



Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Lisa



I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982



You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones



Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~Thomas Jefferson



Never, never, never give up. ~Winston Churchill



Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. ~Finnish Proverb



The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



God's illumined promise. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (rainbow)



A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. ~Carl Sagan



Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned. ~Author Unknown



Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord



The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. Forbes



The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ~Andrew Carnegie



What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan