Eulogy Quotes

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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. — Ambrose Bierce
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. — George Carlin
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
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
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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.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
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
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
Thatâ€™s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thingâ€™s real, it just lives.Â All the attendant hoopla about it, the… — Woody Allen
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
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution. — Thomas B. Macaulay
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb
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
The good life is not an amount; it's an attitude, an act, an idea, a discovery, a search. — Jim Rohn
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
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
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
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
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
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

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