A Quote by Douglas Horton

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Douglas Horton

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Douglas Horton
American - Priest
July 27, 1891 - August 21, 1968

If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves.

Confucius

When you seek revenge, be sure to dig two graves.

Christopher Eccleston

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Allen C. Guelzo

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Confucius

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

Ken Kesey

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Dean Koontz

You’re the only thing I’ve ever done right in my entire life and if anything ever happened to you, they’d have to dig two graves ‘cause I couldn’t live a single day without my baby beside me. (Cherise)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Build castles, don't dig graves.

David J. Schwartz

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

Wendell Phillips

Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people ask, "Does Adi want revenge?" - they mean violent revenge. But in Nozick's formulation, it is revenge. That is the essence of revenge.

Errol Morris

I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.

Khaled Hosseini

I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine's unity.

Petro Poroshenko

Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I don’t want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I know a place to go. You shoot pool? I’m Graves. Dru Anderson: I know. Dru. Graves: Dru. You’re new. Couple of weeks, right? Welcome to Foley.