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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. | |
| Old Grandad is dead but his spirits live on. | |
| Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days. -- W. C. Fields, "My Little Chickadee" | |
| But you who live on dreams, you are better pleased with the sophistical reasoning and frauds of talkers about great and uncertain matters than those who speak of certain and natural matters, not of such lofty nature. -- Leonardo Da Vinci, "The Codex on the Flight of Birds" | |
| I don't want to live on in my work, I want to live on in my apartment. -- Woody Allen | |
| Why are the people starving? Because the rulers eat up the money in taxes. Therefore the people are starving. Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious. Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly. Having little to live on, one knows better than to value life too much. | |
