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

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Paul Harvey

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
Jack Nicholson

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.
Bud Abbott

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
Marcel Proust

Thug Life to me is dead.
Tupac Shakur

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.
David Letterman

The past is never dead. It's not even past.
William Faulkner

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
Robert Mugabe

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

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

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

I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
Layne Staley

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats