Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy. — Brian Koslow Copy Share Image
Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Funny how so many missed me when I was gone yet so few appreciated me when I was here.” — Ken Poirot Copy Share Image
“Really think about what you want your eulogy to say about you, then live THAT.” — Comic Strip Mama Copy Share Image
“Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his . His was a great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“If I close my eyes, I can feel his body, in that way that you do when someone is near, a faint… — E.W. Storch Copy Share Image
More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
“There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about… — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“How can I—how can any of us—let you go? You are woven through us, from birth to death. You educated me, married… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break a person they seek… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“Scarring smiles, hidden tears, You stand, heads bowed and revere The soul before us, burnt and torn Her faded essence, we sadly… — Amelia Mysko Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When I look up at Heaven, I see the souls of those who died Beaming down at me, Wanting to scream: “I'm… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
As I sit here, Pondering my own Mortality, My weird and wonderful Morality, I see with perfect clarity, The man, I aspired… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“{ From Luther Burbank 's funeral. He was loved until he revealed he was an atheist, then he began to receive death… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
“I wrote many things for and with John. I know this is one assignment he'd rather I didn't have to take on.… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“And I understood then that I was a fool when I told you I would take my turn in singing the honours… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“I need my eulogy to look better than my resume. I'm living for that.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die. — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
“All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
