bury quotes

And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 9:35.

She's the sort of woman†one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^4  Mould speaking about Mrs Gamp. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.25.

If theTreasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury themat suitable depthsindisusedcoalmineswhich are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again†there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, thereal income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably becomea good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but as there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Whether you like it not, history is on our side.We will bury you.

- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
  Remark to Western diplomats at the Kremlin,18 Nov. Khrushchev later claimed that he had meant 'We will overtake you [economically]', rather than this more sinister version.

It's now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury.

-Jo Moore
E-mail sent on11 Sep, after hijacked planes destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.

But still the great have kindness in reserve, He helped to bury whom he helped to starve.

- Alexander Pope
  Of a patron.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.247^8.