Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.
Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need.
No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
I believe in the death penalty.
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
