Careful Words

bury (n.)

bury (v.)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Did therewith bury in oblivion.

William Browne (1590-1645): Britannia's Pastorals. Book ii. Song 2.

  "Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down."

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Diogenes. vi.