It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Dead men tell no tales.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
No opposing quotes found.