Funeral Quote by James Russell Lowell Download Open image “What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.” — James Russell Lowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funeral Men Privilege Prize
Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it. — Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin Copy Share Image
“As for men, they must learn bravery and live for Pleasure and for Beauty. More important than those two things should stand only one… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues. — Cary Grant Copy Share Image
We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius Copy Share Image
In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's staring at me, I will place my… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
“Well, they took the neck bones down from the Royal Oaks tree. Rest of the bones they separated from the chains on the ground.… — Sarah E Wright Copy Share Image
The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
“What about your funeral, eh?” She asks. “You mean the one that is never going to happen ever because I am going to gather… — Sara Wolf Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I feel like I just went to my own funeral. and I didn’t like the eulogy” — Lane Pryce Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image