Much Quote by Alan Colmes

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead

— François De La Rochefoucauld

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

— William Hazlitt

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

— Lucretius

Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of…

— Anton Chekhov

“High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the…

— Anne Fadiman

“The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to…

— Hassan Blasim

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

— Lawrence Fagg

It occurred to me that memorials shouldn't be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn't create areas…

— Clemantine Wamariya

“I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel…

— Steve Maraboli

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are…

— Jean de la Bruyere