The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
Jimi Hendrix

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
Jimi Hendrix

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

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
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

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris

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

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer