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Tobacco is the tomb of love.
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Exile: A tomb in which you can get mail.
The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb
Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.
A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.
In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!
Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.
Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.
It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
Great is the rose Infected by the tomb, Yet burgeoning Indifferent to death.
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.
Samarkand, with its magnificent mosques, tombs and dazzling ensembles of ceramic tiles, is still one of the world's most awe-inspiring cities.
Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.
Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.
Jesus wasn't real loving sometimes. He called the Pharisees vipers, snakes, whitewashed tombs. So, you have to understand the world in which we live is dangerous.
I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
You just pull back for hundreds of miles using the satellite imagery, and all of a sudden this invisible world become visible. You're actually able to see settlements and tombs - and even things like buried pyramids - that you might not otherwise be able to see.
When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space... It allows us to see hidden temples and tombs and pyramids and even entire settlements.
Think about what would happen if Indiana Jones and Google Earth had a love child. I use high-resolution and NASA satellites and look for subtle differences on the surface of the earth that locate buried ancient pyramids and towns and ancient tombs, which we then go and excavate.
We've found that patterns of site looting have increased between 500 and 1000 percent since the start of the Arab Spring. Now this is a problem as old as human beings. People were looting tombs 5,000 years ago in Egypt as soon as people were buried, but the problem is only getting worse and worse.
The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.