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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb Colton
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
Marvin Minsky
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My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner 
64% of people like this quote
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb Colton
64% of people like this quote
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie
63% of people like this quote
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
62% of people like this quote
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
Marvin Minsky
60% of people like this quote
My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner
59% of people like this quote
Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it's buried in the back page or never makes it on the air at all.
Dixie Lee Ray
59% of people like this quote
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick William Faber
58% of people like this quote
I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.
Jeremy Collier
58% of people like this quote
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