Eulogy Quotes
53 quotes by 46 authors
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
— George Carlin
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While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used…
— Herbert Hoover
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Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
— Albert Camus
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when…
— Peggy Noonan
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Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
— Arianna Huffington
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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about it, the…
— Woody Allen
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In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through…
— Aeschylus
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The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search.
— Jim Rohn
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A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture…
— Jim Rohn
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If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same…
— Jim Rohn
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When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under…
— George Santayana
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Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad,…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and…
— Swami Vivekananda
Who Wrote These Eulogy Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 53 Eulogy Quotes, led by these top contributors: