Came Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

— Anonymous

“She looked at him and he read in her eyes a disappointment that he should have stooped to the dead relative excuse. Yet he…

— Helen Simonson

“When your family dies, that’s a bummer, but that’s life. When my family dies, it’s a tragedy and the world is unbalanced and biased.
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— Jarod Kintz

“It was death that the public was being cheated out of by the funeral industry, not money. The realistic interaction with death and the…

— Caitlin Doughty

In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death

— Albert Camus

“To our benefit, death isn't affected by an economic failure, and it never takes a holiday. In addition, a bereaved rich man is easier…

— Jeffrey Ford

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

— Anonymous

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

— Walter Bagehot

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and…

— Joyce Cary

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

— E. W. Howe

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

— Sonia Gandhi

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

— Thomas Mann