Funeral Quotes

514 quotes by 433 authors

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings. — Rodney Atkins
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. — George Ade
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. — Yogi Berra
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
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
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. — John Burroughs
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. — Eddie Cantor
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. — Hans Christian Andersen
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
Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The past is a funeral gone by. — Edmund Gosse
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
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
Life's too short for a funeral. — Bill Smith
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
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
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

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