Quotes with funeral

  • Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
  • The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
  • Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
  • A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
  • Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
  • If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.
  • My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
  • People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.
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  • George Ade In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • Mark Twain refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Katherine Mansfield When you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Walt Whitman And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Kehlog Albran Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
    Kehlog Albran
     
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Mark Twain I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Steven Wright I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Mark Twain I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Gregory Nunn If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Olin Miller Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Robert Eldridge Willmott Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and
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  • Samuel Johnson More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    American writer and prominent socialite (1884 - 1980)
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  • Anne Rice My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Plutarch Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Caitlin Doughty One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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