Dies

Famous quotes containing the word dies:

    Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
    Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    The chief want, in every State that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants. This alone draws out “the great resources” of Nature, and at last taxes her beyond her resources; for man naturally dies out of her.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)