It's better to get a rosebud while you're alive than a whole bouquet after you're dead.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

We are going to take them out dead or alive.

know if they are alive or dead.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.