“ I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. ”
- Irvin S. Cobb- Copy
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“ A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. ”
- Yogi Berra- Copy
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“ Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think — yes, it was three; I attended their funerals. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. ”
- George Ade- Copy
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“ What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him. ”
- Jimmy Breslin- Copy
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“ A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. ”
- Grace Hansen- Copy
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“ I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. ”
- Chuck Palahniuk- Copy
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“ They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours. ”
- Yogi Berra- Copy
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“ Trees receive a most beautiful burial. Nature takes fallen trees gently to her bosom — at rest from storms. They seem to have been called home out of the sky to sleep now. ”
- John Muir- Copy
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“ It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time. (7:3). ”
- Ecclesiastes- Copy
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“ Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. ”
- Quintus Ennius- Copy
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