There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The Seasons,'Winter', l.431^2.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthyand wealthyand dead.

-Thurber,James Grover
  'The Shrike and the Chipmunks', in the NewYorker,18 Feb.

On doit des e¤  gards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la ve¤  rite¤  . We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
'Premi e' re Lettre sur ¼dipe'. In ¼uvres, vol.1 (published1785).

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Scoop, bk.1, ch.5.

O, that it were possible, We might but hold some two days'conference With the dead!

-Webster,John
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 4, sc.2.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!

-Whittier,John Greenleaf
  'Ichabod', stanza 8.

He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.1, stanza1.

Something was dead in each of us, And what was dead was Hope.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  The Ballad of Reading Gaol, pt.3, stanza 31.

   A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passivelyas it standsfixed tothesod.The Norman arrow and sword worked on: in the English ranks the only movement was the dropping of the dead: the living stood motionless.

-William of Poitiers   11c.
c.1071 Of theBattle of Hastings,14 Oct1066. Gesta Guillelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum (edited by R Foreville,1952).

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  In the Observer, 26 Jan.

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'September1913', refrain. Collected in Responsibilities (1914).

   A dead reign†a strange epoch of folly and shame.

-Zola, EŁ  mile
On the France of the Second Empire. Quoted inJoanna Richardson LaVie Parisienne (1971), p.276.