A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause and death ensued the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun and might if the latter were of an aggravated character return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Death is one moment and life is so many of them.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger envy and death.

It is impossible that anything so natural so necessary and so universal as death should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage don't move to California.

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Well to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture I say 'Well good on you. See you there.'

All stories interest me and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice loyalty violence death political and social issues freedom.

To the well-organized mind death is but the next great adventure.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

My father's death my move and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress pain and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

The true face of smoking is disease death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.