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It's the weekend...I have whiskey down me from fathers day....but here goes..

I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Time is a great teacher but it kills it's pupils

NEXT!
 
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
 
"No-one recognises they are living in the golden age until it ends"- can't remember who said that, but it's a good one.

"The death of a single man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic" - attributed to Joseph Stalin. Sounds very like something he would have said, to be fair.
 
A couple from the very excellent barbarian, Genesis Khan:

"I am the hammer of God. Your sins must be very great to set me upon you."

"The greatest thing in life is to destroy your enemies, take their wealth, and have their women"- this one got used in Conan the Barbarian and Game of Thrones.
 
‘Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then’,
Bob Seger, “Against the wind.”

Another, “It matters little how good a man was in life, how kind he was to his wife and his children,
or how much he contributed to charity, the amount of people at his funeral will depend on the weather.”
 
"Now you're going to die wearing that stupid little hat. How does it feel?" (Falling Down)

"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." - Sagan
 
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
 
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