Proverbs:

A dead man does not make war.
Italian
A dead man does not speak.
Portuguese
A dead man has neither relations nor friends.
French
A death-bed’s a detector of the heart.
Young
A fly, a grape stone, or a hair can kill.
Pope
A man has learned much, who has learned how to die.
German
A sudden death is the best.
Cæsar
All men are born richer than they die.
German
An escape from death is worth more than the prayers of good men.
Don Quixote
An honorable death is better than an inglorious life.
Socrates
As soon as man expert from time has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death.
Young
As soon as man is born he begins to die.
German
As soon dies the calf as the cow.
French
Be still prepared for death, and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
Shakespeare
Better once dead than all the time suffering in need.
German
Charon waits for all.
*
Come soon or late death’s undetermined day,
This mortal being only can decay.
Ovid
Dead dogs don’t bite.
German
Dead folks can’t bite.
*
Dead men do not bite.
Theoditus
Dead men pay no surgeons.
Fielding
Death foreseen, never comes.
Italian
Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Job
Death and love are two wings which bear men from earth to heaven.
Michael Angelo
Death defies the doctor.
*
Death does not blow a trumpet.
Danish
Death has a thousand doors to let out life.
Massinger
Death is but what the haughty brave,
The weak must bear, the wretch must crave.
Byron
Death is in the pot.
Dutch
Death is most unfortunate in prosperity.
Plutarch
Death is never premature except to those who die without virtue.
French
Death is shameful in flight, glorious in victory.
Cicero
Death opens the gate to good fame and extinguishes envy.
Byron
Death’s but a path that must be trod,
If man would ever pass to God.
Parnell
Death spares neither pope nor beggar.
*
Death to the wolf is life to the lamb.
*
Death will hear of no excuse.
Euripides
Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds.
Dutch
Do not speak ill of the dead, but deem them sacred who have gone into the immortal state.
Ancients
Every one must pay his debt to nature.
German
Feign death and the bull will leave you.
Portuguese
Few have luck, all have death.
Danish
Golden lads and girls, all must
As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
Shakespeare
Great body, great grave.
German
He dies like a beast who has done no good while he lived.
*
He hath lived ill that knows not how to die well.
*
He hauls at a long rope that expects another’s death.
Italian
He that died half a year ago is as dead as Adam.
*
He that dies pays all debts.
Shakespeare
He that dies this year is quit of the next.
Shakespeare
He waits long that waits for another man’s death.
Dutch
He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.
Dutch
He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.
Dutch
He who waits for a dead man’s shoes is in danger of going barefoot.
French
He whom the gods love dies young.
Plautus
He would be a good one to send for death.
Italian
Heaven gives its favorites an early death.
Byron
How wise in God to place death at the end of life.
German
I know of nobody that has a mind to die this year.
*
If you want to be dead wash your head and go to bed.
Spanish
It is better to die an honest death than to live an infamous life.
Petrarch
It is better to die once than to live always in fear of death.
Cæsar
It is better to die with honor than to live in infamy.
Agricola
It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of the house.
Italian
Keep thine eye fixed on the end of life.
Solon
Me dead, the world is dead.
Italian
Men fear death as children to go in the dark.
*
No priority among the dead.
*
Noble spirits war not with the dead.
Byron
Of the great and of the dead, either speak well or say nothing.
Italian
Pale death knocks at the cottage and the palace with an impartial hand.
Horace
She is good and honored who is dead and buried.
Spanish
The dead cannot defend, therefore speak well of the dead.
Latin
The dead man is unenvied.
Modern Greek
The dead open the eyes of the living.
Portuguese
The evening praises the day, death the life.
German
The heathen looked on death without fear, the Christian exulted.
Bulwer
The road of death must be travelled by all.
Horace
The sight of death is as a bell that warns old age to a sepulchre.
Shakespeare
The world’s an inn and death the journey’s end.
Dryden
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Byron
Time goes, death comes.
Dutch
To die is nothing: ’tis but parting with a mountain of vexation.
Massinger
To insult the dead is cruel and unjust.
Homer
We had better die at once than to live constantly in fear of death.
Dion
When you die even your tomb shall be comfortable.
Russian
Who dies in youth and vigor dies the best.
Homer
Who thinks often of death does nothing worthy of life.
Italian
Proverbs theme "Death" in English
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