The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mohandas Gandhi

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Theodore Roosevelt

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Groucho Marx

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
Steven Wright

Rather be dead than cool.
Kurt Cobain

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Erma Bombeck