Funeral Quotations | Page 5

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.

Life is a sport...drink it up.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

The only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal." "It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals... and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise.

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

Away with funeral music-set The pipe to powerful lips- The cup of life's for him that drinks And not for him that sips.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

My grandfather was a very insignificant man, actually. At his funeral his hearse followed the other cars.

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.