Zeuxis died laughing at the picture of an old woman – Thomas Brooks
As the life of man is very short, so it is very uncertain.
Now healthy now sick! Alive this hour and dead the next!
Death does not always give warning beforehand; sometimes he gives the mortal blow suddenly; he comes behind with his dart, and strikes a man at the heart, before he says, “Have I found you, O my enemy?
Eutychus fell down dead suddenly, Acts 20:9.
Death suddenly arrested David’s sons and Job’s sons.
Zeuxis died laughing at the picture of an old woman which he drew with his own hand!
Sophocles choked to death on the seed of a grape!
Diodorus the logician died for shame that he could not answer a witty question.
Joannes Measius, preaching upon the raising of the woman of Nain’s son from the dead, within three hours after died himself!
Ah! death is sudden in his approaches.
Nothing more sure than death!
Nothing more uncertain than life!
Though there is but one way to come into this world yet there are a thousand thousand ways to be sent out of this world!
Prepare to meet your God!” Amos 4:12