If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally 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

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

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Henry Miller

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Morihei Ueshiba

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.
James Madison

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Henny Youngman

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
Giacomo Casanova

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
George Bernard Shaw

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Evelyn Waugh

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce