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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. -- Plautus
Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue. -- Terry Pratchett
Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves. -- Daniel Handler
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery. -- Bill Mauldin
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief? -- Laurie R. King
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. -- Khalil Gibran
The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three. -- Roger McGough
Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance. -- Eugen Sandow
Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you. -- Holly Black
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. -- Edward Abbey
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. -- Maya Angelou
It's Russell Montgomery the Third, actually," said Rusty, still grinning. "But I'd be obliged if you keep that bit of information to yourself." "I don't imagine any of us cares enough to remember," Jared said. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning. -- Lord Byron
These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand. -- George Lois
she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough. -- Veronica Roth
Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another -- Parker Stevenson
Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another. -- Parker Stevenson
You're not very nice," I say, grinning. "You're one to talk." "Hey, I could be nice if I tried." "Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then." "You're very good-looking." He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing. -- Veronica Roth
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning. -- Elizabeth George
Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches. -- Herman Melville
The shouts of triumph become infectious, and I lift my voice to join in, running toward my teammates. Christina holds the flag up high, and everyone clusters around her, grabbing her arm to lift the flag even higher. I can't reach her, so I stand off to the side, grinning. A hand touches my shoulder. "Well done," Four says quietly. -- Veronica Roth
If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much. -- Tony Millionaire
Vishous, could you stop grinning like that? You're beginning to freak me out. -- J.R. Ward
We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long. -- Joe Walsh
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Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that. -- Michael Howard
Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. -- Alan Bradley
Don't start," he warned. "What?" she said, grinning. "I'm sure all the big, bad trappers have a bun-bun in their houses. -- Jana Oliver
When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery. -- Bill Mauldin
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
My arms hurt from how tightly Patch held me. â??Now thatâ??s what I call a scream,â? he said, grinning at me. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Jack jumped off the couch, pulling his shirt back on. "Next time,if you'd like, I'll just come without one," he said,grinning at me. -- Kiersten White
He was so fucked, careening madly down the path to getting his heart splattered all over hell. And grinning like a buffoon the entire time. -- Cherrie Lynn
Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning. -- Walt Disney
Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. â??Come and get me. -- Cassandra Clare
You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression. -- Alexandra Adornetto
She glared at him. "Why are you forever asking hard questions?" He smiled. "Sooner or later you'll have to be able to answer one." Daja shoved him, grinning. -- Tamora Pierce
There's no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you by, - handsome, Twentytwoyearold. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. -- Yann Martel
[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats! -- D. H. Lawrence
Your dreamers. You ridiculous children. You dancing grinning fuckups. Here is your bright future. Your earnest, saccharine hope. How does it taste dripping from the neck of everyone you love? -- Isaac Marion
Well, it's more like a sentence on life," he said, grinning"I live by three rules: Don't dwell on the past, present, or future, party hard, and never fall in love. Easy. -- Ada Adams
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot. -- Ian Mcewan
Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music. -- Cynthia Heimel
I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza? -- Kimora Lee Simmons
It was an overcast late November morning, the grass splintered by hoarfrost, and winter grinning through the gaps in the clouds like a bad clown peering through the curtains before the show begins. -- John Connolly
Holy silicone suppository, Batman!" Ethan said, grinning. Dan snorted, Parker coughed to disguise a laugh, and I glared at them all. "What?" My brother shrugged defensively. "That's what it looks like. -- Rachel Vincent
He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face. -- Cassandra Clare

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