A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan P. Smith

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
James Beattie

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.
Josh McDowell

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
Lactantius

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
Adolf Loos

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.
Howard Carter

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
Zahi Hawass

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
Zahi Hawass

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.
Kim Elizabeth

It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
Zahi Hawass

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Karl Shapiro

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
Robert Emmet

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Margaret Cavendish

Marriage is the tomb of love.
Giacomo Casanova

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.
Lynette Fromme

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.
Josh McDowell

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
Anthony Sampson