"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day."
- "Napoleon Bonaparte" from "Hornblower During a Crisis" by C.S. Forester

"Call no man happy until he is dead."
- "someone or other" from "Hornblower During a Crisis" in "The Last Encounter" by C.S. Forester

"Life was a succession of pills that had to be swallowed"."
- "Horatio Hornblower" from "Hornblower and the 'Atropos'", by C.S. Forester, Ch. 3

"If variety was the spice of life, thought Hornblower, his present existence must be an Oriental curry."
- "Horatio Hornblower" from "Hornblower and the 'Atropos'", by C.S. Forester, Ch. 14

"Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures."
- "Horatio Hornblower" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "The Fire Ships"

"I would consider it my duty to help your release from this world."
- "Horatio Hornblower" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "The Fire Ships"

"I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant"
- "Lord Edrington" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "The Wrong War"

"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."
- "Captain Sawyer" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "Mutiny" (taken from "King Henry" from "King Henry IV Part 2", by William Shakespeare, Act III, scene i)

"It's not history that concerns me, Horatio. It's the future. It's far more uncertain."
- "Archie Kennedy" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "Mutiny"

"A hit, a palpable hit."
- "Archie Kennedy" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "Retribution" (taken from "Osric" from "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare, Act V, scene ii)

"Poor Horatio, so quick to give, so slow to accept the simplest gift."
- "Archie Kennedy" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "Retribution"


"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
- Woody Allen

"Nothing succeeds like a successor."
- Jimmy Carter

"I'd like to have world peace. If that doesn't work, I'd like to take over the world."
- Some girl

"When you die you lose a very important part of your life."
- Brook Shields

"I am, therefore I think."
- Skeet Ulrich

"Buddha says 'If you were bad in a past life, you get to be famous in this one.'"
- David Duchovny

"Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin."
- David Letterman

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my Grandfather did, not screaming in terror like his passengers."
- Michael Aulfrey

"I not short, I'm Asian."
- Tiffany Kho's cousin Kevin

"I know more than you, because you think you know something, whereas I know I know nothing."
- Socrates