TONY WRIGHT
‘The Dance of Death’, is a theme expressed in the drama, poetry, music, and visual arts of Europe, mainly in the late Middle Ages. Its purpose was to serve as a reminder that death is always at our shoulder and that our worldly desires and passions are but fleeting chimeras.
The Quotations.
If some persons died, and others did not, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere, 1645-1696
Nipped in the bud.
Sir Boyle Roche, 1736-1807.
Christmas is coming and the geese are getting fat.
A beggars rhyme
It's not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop, 550 BC.
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Used as a conventional term to suggest the crowing of as rooster.
Happiness is no laughing matter.
Richard Whateley, Archbishop of Dublin. 1787-1863.
Make hay while the sun shines.
John Heywood, 1497-1580
I saw satan fall from the sky in a pillar of fire.
Gospel of St Luke.
Ready to meet my maker ?
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965.
I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Misery loves company.
John Ray, 1627-1705.
The angel of death is abroad throughout the land.
You can almost hear the beating of his wings.
John Bright 1811-1889
Run swiftly horses of the night.
Ovid, 43 BC-18 AD.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them,
and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821.
No man is a hero to his own valet.
Madame Cornuel, 1605-1694.
If nature refuses indignation produces verses.
Decimus Junius Juvenal, 60-140 CE.
Little birds that can sing and won't sing, must be made to sing.
John Ray, 1627-1705.
Still waters run deep.
John H. Aughey 1828-1911
A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind horse.
William Godwin 1756-1836
Sleep that masters all.
Sophocles, 495-406 BC.
Every dog has it’s day.
Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875.
Hope springs eternal.
Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.
If the devil has a name, then that name is man, and he, rules the earth.
Voltaire 1694-1778.
Famine, pestilence, destruction and death. These are only aliases.
Grantland Rice. 1880-1954.
Dainty does it.
John Heywood, 1497-1580
It is beauteous evening, calm and free.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850.
And the serpent said to Eve, ‘Thou shalt not die’. Genesis. Truth is great and it’s effectiveness endures.
Ptahhotpe c 2350 BC
Hold their noses to the grindstone.
John Heywood, 1497-1580.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894.
Must it be? It must be.
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827.
What is true in the lamplight is not always true in the sunlight.
Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824
What a piece of work is a man.
William Shakespeare. 1564-1616.
Wait and we’ll see him crouch.
Aurealeus Roadus, 4th Century.
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
John Trevisa, 1342-1402.
Fear death?- to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face.
Robert Browning,1812-1889.
A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important.
Walter Benjamin, 1892-1940.
When the sky falleth, we shall have larks.
John Heywood, 1497-1580.
Deaths door.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 4 BC-65 AD
'Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one can stop his death; a thousand doors open on to it.'
Fortune Goodnight, smile once more, turn thy wheel.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616.