I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs read more

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean.

Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.

Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a read more

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.