"If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none." ― Mel Brooks Topic(s): Death More From Mel Brooks "Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love." "Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive." "A lot of music is mathematics. It’s balance." More In Death "Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death."― Hesiod "My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching."― Twyla Tharp "An unused life is an early death."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe