Famous Quotes

"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death."

Charles de Montesquieu 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 Charles de Montesquieu

• "It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."

• "We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

• "I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."

• "There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."

• "Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."