Category: Death

Death Enjoy every sandwich Hope I die before I get old I'll sleep when I'm dead Keith Moon Music quotations Rock music quotes September 7 Warren Zevon

Hope I die before I get old… then I can sleep when I’m dead…

4 years ago
Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

The date September 7 has an ironic link to two famous rock music quotes associated with the deaths of two of rock’s most legendary bad boys. On September 7, 1978,…

Albert Bigelow Paine Death Humorous quotes June 2 Mark Twain May 31 Misquotes reports of my death the report of my death

Reports of Mark Twain’s quip about his death are greatly misquoted…

6 years ago
Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

In May 1897, the great American humorist, novelist and social critic Samuel Clemens — best known by his pen name, Mark Twain — was in London. It was one of…

Assia Wevill Death Dying is an art like everything else February 11 Lady Lazarus Literature Literature quotes Poetry Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes The Bell Jar

“Dying / Is an art, like everything else.”

7 years ago
Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

“Lady Lazarus” is one of the best-known poems by the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath. It includes the oft-quoted lines:        “Dying         Is an art, like everything else.        …

Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin Daniel Defoe Death Historical quotes Jean-Baptiste Leroy Life and Death Nothing is certain but death and taxes Nothing is certain except death and taxes November 13 Proverbial Sayings Taxes

“Nothing is certain except death and taxes.”

13 years ago
Robert Deis aka SubtropicBob

One of the most famous quotations by Benjamin Franklin is: “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” (Commonly heard as “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”) The source of…