If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles
Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
For the dead there are no more toils.
You know, a statesman is a dead politician.
Arlen Specter
Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.
Ronnie Spector
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's... →
Mickey Spillane
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your... →
Bruce Springsteen
I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
Layne Staley
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
Paul Stamets