“If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.” IfsMenStatesPoliticalDiesPoliticsPowerThousandFifty Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.” YearsTwoEarthDiesFoundHundredYears AgoBotherFiftyHospitalsBootsExoticPneumoniaGallopingSafariKilimanjaro Author:Roger Zelazny
“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.” PeopleIfsThinkingMightMovingLawDeathDiesTurnsHouseWallMonthsSmellFiftyNeighborhoodHostClingingSupperUnwrittenPotluck Book:Under the Wolf, Under the Dog Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
“A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.” MenYearsAgeDiesFallHouseConditionsBuildingFortuneOld AgeThirtyFiftyThirty YearsThirty Years Old Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.” GivingHumansHeartSelfBodyYoungDiesWhiteEffortBoysFiveStupidTwentiesSoldierAthleteFiftyFortyHuman HeartSignalsPurpleImpressiveLaurelsDie YoungMenopauseGallantGallantryPurple Heart Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places