Bury Quotes

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. (Herodotus)
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. View quote
William Hazlitt
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns. View quote
Tom Waits
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. View quote
E. E. Cummings
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. (Henrik Ibsen)
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. View quote
Erma Bombeck
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. View quote
Ray Charles
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. View quote
Arundhati Roy
My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping. View quote
Rita Rudner
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
In peace the sons bury their fathers and in war the fathers bury their sons. View quote
Francis Bacon
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? (Virginia Woolf)
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in. View quote
James Russell Lowell
When my time on earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass. View quote
Bob Knight
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. View quote
Milan Kundera
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. View quote
Orison Swett Marden