If you want to avoid weddings then attend funerals.

Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once…

— Philip Treacy

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

— H. L. Mencken

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Most souls attend their funerals and have some feelings about them, but it's such an individual event. Some souls don't care what happens to…

— Echo Bodine

“I would not have it understood, for a moment, that I or any of the Elders attend funerals to smother over the weaknesses of…

— Joseph F. Smith

Attend to people who show themselves more ready to hear than to speak.

— Vikrant Parsai

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

— Thomas Lynch

I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.

— Craig Stone

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

— Charlie Munger

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

— Lucian Freud

“It makes you want to avoid, and then it makes you terribly needy. It reduces you to about five years old. It also makes”

— Julia Wendell

“What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when…

— Kevin Wilson

Pretending that you're very busy talking over phone when you see someone you want to avoid or don't want to talk to.

— Raghav Singh

“...most people were motivated not by what they want but what they want to avoid.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”

— Joanne Harris