Dead

Famous quotes containing the word dead:

    I too but signify at the utmost a little wash’d-up drift,
    A few sands and dead leaves to gather,
    Gather, and merge myself as part of the sands and drift.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph—green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
    Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    The dead being the majority it is a natural thing that we should have more friends among these than among the living.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)