FUNERALS

Famous Quotes

Quote: In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. Author: George Ade 1866-1944, American Humorist, Playwright

Quote: Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. Author: Kehlog Albran 1933-?, Author born in Brest-Litovsk

Quote: A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

Quote: A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. Author: Irvin S. Cobb

Quote: As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral. Author: Sidney Thompson Dobell

Quote: 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. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist

Quote: The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. Author: Harold Macmillan 1894-1986, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister

Quote: On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

Quote: I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died] Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: Some people never head a procession until they're dead. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that he's dead. Author: Source Unknown

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