An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
President Bush is often out there talking about the importance of staying the course, and about the sacrifice, but he has not… — Dana Milbank Copy Share Image
The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
People need what they think of as a poem to be read at their bar mitzvah, their wedding, a funeral, whatever. And… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...what I'm saying isn't for him. If my words were for him they would be different; softer, and more meaningful. They would… — Cheyenne Berandi Copy Share Image
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I built a cannon out of ice, and wrapped myself in the funeral carpet which my husbands and wives had woven for… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
One of my earliest memories was President [J.F.] Kennedy's funeral. I actually remember sitting on the floor in the living room looking… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama's former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image