Fitness Quote by Edward Everett

The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead

— François De La Rochefoucauld

Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what…

— William Shakespeare

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens…

— Ambrose Bierce

Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show…

— John Ruskin

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may…

— Ovid

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And…

— John Milton

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of…

— Quintus Ennius

And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be…

— Oscar Wilde

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the…

— Neil Gaiman

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone,…

— Joseph Addison