"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me"

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste"

"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment"

"Give the peasants neither life nor death"