Famous Quotes

"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

Walter Bagehot on Death

More quotes about Death

• "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Death

• "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

  Buddha on Death

• "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 on Death

• "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

  Mark Twain on Death

• "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

  Helen Keller on Death

More quotes by Walter Bagehot

• "A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life."

• "Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

• "A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

• "The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."

• "The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."