“If you're not working, you might as well be dead.”
T.C. Boyle (1948) American novelist and short story writer
Acts of God (1989)
“A man without trust might as well be dead.”
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
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“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”
One of Ours (1922), Bk. II, Ch. 6
“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”
Ernest Hemingway book True at First Light
Source: True at First Light (1999), Ch. 12
“Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.”
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist
"On Passing the New Menin Gate" (1927-1928)
Collected Poems (1949)
Context: Here was the world's worst wound. And here with pride
'Their name liveth for evermore' the Gateway claims.
Was ever an immolation so belied
As these intolerably nameless names?
Well might the Dead who struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of crime.
Juliet Marillier book Wildwood Dancing
Variant: If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.
Source: Wildwood Dancing
“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
Mark Manson (1984) American writer and blogger
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016), Chapter 8, “The Importance of Saying No” (pp. 182-183)
“A man might as well play for nothing as work for nothing.”
Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet (1802–1880) Lord Chief Justice
In an obituary, Canada Law Journal, January 1, 1881, p. 11. According to the journal: "[Cockburn] subsequently acquired a large practice in London in railway and election cases. Although he did his best for his clients, he was careful that they should do their duty by him, and the story is told that on one occasion, when an election committee met, Mr. Cockburn, the counsel for one of the parties, was absent because his fee had not accompanied the brief and the only message left was that he had gone to the Derby, with the remark that 'A man might as well play for nothing as work for nothing'".
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“The stars are far from eternal, but for man they might as well be.”
Larry Niven book Protector
Section 1, Phssthpok, Chapter 1 (p. 7)
Protector (1973)