The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mohandas Gandhi

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
Steven Wright

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Erma Bombeck

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.
Erma Bombeck

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West