Funerals quotes

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◆ I hate weddings. Old people would poke me saying You're next. They stopped when I started going up to them at funerals and poking them, saying, You're next.

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◆ I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

- John Burroughs99

◆ I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead

- Fran?ois De La Rochefoucauld99

◆ I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

- Rosalind Russell99

◆ Funerals are pretty compared to death

- Tennessee Williams99

◆ The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

- Samuel Goldwyn99

◆ He would make a lovely corpse.

- Charles Dickens99

◆ When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

- John Donne99

◆ The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

- Harriet Beecher Stowe99

◆ If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.

- Gregory Nunn99

◆ Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

- Clarence Darrow99

◆ Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

- Charles Caleb Colton99

◆ Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

- Chuck Palahniuk99