Funeral Quotes
514 quotes by 433 authors
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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
— Rodney Atkins
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
— Charles Baudelaire
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
— George Ade
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
— Yogi Berra
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something.…
— Erma Bombeck
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
— Albert Brooks
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
— John Burroughs
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
— Eddie Cantor
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used…
— Tupac Shakur
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The past is a funeral gone by.
— Edmund Gosse
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
— Henry David Thoreau
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More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied…
— Samuel Johnson
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Life's too short for a funeral.
— Bill Smith
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died…
— George W. Bush
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a…
— Tertullian
Who Wrote These Funeral Quotes
433 authors contributed a total of 514 Funeral Quotes, led by these top contributors: