Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "you can't kill a man if he's already dead, but you can spit on his grave"

• Ghosts can laugh, but they're already dead
• It's easier to kick a praying man, because he's on his knees already
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• "You want to know the only thing you can assume about a broken down old man? It's that he's a survivor."
• You can bear arms, but you can't bare breasts
• The guy who may as well already be dead and therefore doesn't care about the consequences of his actions and is able to move with perfect freedom for the remainder of what will likely be a tragically short life
• Some say he once killed a man with a guitar string
• You can run, but you can't hide
• Fear makes a man kill what he loves
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• Any man can handle adversity. If you want to test his character, give him power.
• if Gerry Stern were dead, he'd roll over in his grave
• You might as well kill yourself. You're already dead.
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• He never killed a man that did not need killing.
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• The Man He Killed
• How can a man stand when they cut off his feet?
• why is the great man great? he keeps on running through a world of his own.
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• "I see," said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• No obstacle can overcome the spirit of a man determined to choke his chicken
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• God can create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• How can someone worship a dead naked man nailed to a cross as their god?
• Can God create a boulder so large He can't have anal sex with it?
• I killed a man with his own stomach
• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• To Kill a Dead Man
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• the water can kill you, but the beer won’t
• Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• And we killed him and he's dead.
• Yeah I can love my fellow man; but I'm damned if I'll love yours.
• Man is but the imprint of his native landscape
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet, I'll grab his tricorder.
• dead, but longing to touch
• I will kill you if I can
• But can a robot love.
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• The dead eat it always, but the living who eat it die slowly
• One man can make a difference
• What we think we know can kill us
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• The train that came to me in the dream was already a dead train
• Smoking can kill you
• The only thing stopping us is the pressure. If your machine can withstand it, we are already on our way.
• whatever he touches, if it isn't false already, becomes false
• You can only watch as his heart is coaxed from his chest to his sleeve
• What can change the nature of a man?
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• I will have her forever but I can't touch her
• I'm sorry, but we can't watch the rest of MacBeth until it is censored
• he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• Django Reinhardt was dead already
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• He's not cute, as in good looking, but he's got a cute psychosis
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• If he's late, you can always start without him
• The Old Tin Can Man
• beautiful & sad but i know you already
• You can't dominate the world on $10 a day (or can you?)
• "Takeoff?" he said. "Can we handle that much torque?"
• Can you tell I'm a man?
• Can't you just fall in love with me already?
• from where I stand I can see they have already won
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• I may have cellulite, but I can still put my ankles behind my head
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• You can, but you may not
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• you can close your eyes but not your ears
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• we are already dead. this is all there is.
• but with words we can create anything
• you can use a lot of words and ideas to try to hide it, but you're always making a choice between love and hate
• She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
• You can teach people truth, but it's harder to teach them to cope with truth.
• it won't kill you to breathe it in, but it may change you, years from now
• Already Dead: A California Gothic
• His actions have already scarred American history.
• Asking for a favor
• That is not dead which can eternal lie
• Dead Can Dance
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• What doesn't kill you can only fuck you up for a really, really long time
• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose
• There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
• How being an irresponsible geek can kill!
• Men can download naked women. Women can't download men worshipping them. Ha ha!
• If you look hard enough, you can see Satan and his works everywhere
• No man can eat fifty eggs
• Now he can be loved. Now he is no more.
• Can't speed up, can't slow down - all we can do is follow these damn dogs
• Impromptu: A Very Random NYC Gathering...
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• Cool, you can put a bullet in his head!
• Don't stop. You can sleep when you're dead.
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
• This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
• The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
• You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• But can you still cry like a child?
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• He smiles but it's not real.
• He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• like you're blind but still can see
• we can give up, but the world never will
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• Not very sterile, but better than dead
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• Actually, I went to bed this morning, sometime, but we can gloss over that.
• How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• What can a reed do but sway about and love?
• but we turn everything we touch to shit; we just can't let beauty stand
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• Dead But Dreaming

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