Funerals Quotes


A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. Alexander The Great Funerals 154
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. Mark Twain Funerals 105
A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. Ambrose Bierce Funerals 97
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. Irvin S. Cobb Funerals 89
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. George Ade Funerals 86
There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. Robert Frost Funerals 83
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. Ralph Waldo Emerson Funerals 78
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. Harold MacMillan Funerals 63
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. Richard Buckminster Fuller Funerals 54
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. George Eliot Funerals 40
Under the wide and starry sky, Adlai Stevenson Funerals 38
The house appointed for all the living. Bible Funerals 37
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. Francois de la Rochefoucauld Funerals 33
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 Funerals 30

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