#grave

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#graveyards #indispensable #men

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#grave #laziness #leisure #life #sleeping

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#chris #christie #cream #gravel #mitt

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

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#coals #cruel #fire #grave #thereof

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#because #bonds #corporation #cynically #engraved

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#fading #fame #grave #little #name

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. ↗

— Gary Larson

#considered #graveyards #i #music #musicians

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on anything or I'd drive myself to an early grave with guilt and worry for my family, whom I'd never see. ↗

— Jude Law

#back #because #been #drive #early

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#angola #beds #been #contents #deciding