Death Rates

Famous quotes containing the words death and/or rates:

“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
—Thomas Browne (1605–1682)

“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)