islamic quotes on death

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to weave. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball. ~Mickey Mantle, 1970



Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord. ~Donald Morgan



Tobacco, divine, rare superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all panaceas, potable gold and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy



Eat, drink and be scary. ~Author Unknown



Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, and just be my friend. ~Albert Camus



The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way. ~Antie Koekie, http://antiekoekie.co.za



It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11



There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. ~James Russell Lowell



If God dropped acid, would he see people? ~Steven Wright



Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you. ~Frank Crane



Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own. ~Author Unknown



Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive. ~Author Unknown



If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon. ~Doug Rader



Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ~Alan Valentine



He struggles to exude authority. He furrows his brow, trying to look more sagacious, but he ends up looking as if he has indigestion. Appearing confused at his own speech, he seems like a first-grade actor in a production of James and the Giant Peach. Are his blinks Morse code for "Oh, man, don't let that teleprompter break?" ~Maureen Dowd, about George W. Bush



America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. ~James T. Farrell



When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1857



It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter



If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily. ~Gerald Good