Eulogy Quotes
53 quotes by 46 authors
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There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the…
— Michelangelo
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Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
— Ellen Terry
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Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the…
— Carter G. Woodson
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since…
— Christian Dior
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He not busy being born is busy dying.
— Bob Dylan
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
— Paul Erdos
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
— Douglas MacArthur
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
— Nelson Mandela
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
— George Bernard Shaw
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People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
— Voltaire
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Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
— George Edward Woodberry
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
— William Butler Yeats
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Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy…
— Regina Brett
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His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A…
— William Shakespeare
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Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding…
— Flann O'Brien
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According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means…
— Jerry Seinfeld
Who Wrote These Eulogy Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 53 Eulogy Quotes, led by these top contributors: