“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”

“Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and then die in the hands of politicians.”

“Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.”

“I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.”

“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”

“They fought because they were paid for it; they were not interested very much in the conquest of Greece. The Athenians on the other hand, fought for their freedom. They preferred to die rather than lose their freedom, and those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.”

“But if there be an hereafter,
And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd
And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,
Then must it be an awful thing to die;
More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.”

“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”

“If she'd known she was going to die at his hands, she would have dressed up.”

“For us, it is conquer or die. This is a unique burden for the white man, that our fate is entirely in our hands.”