Funeral Quote by Lawrence Fagg

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a…

— Marcel Proust

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a…

— Garrison Keillor

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better…

— Charles Caleb Colton

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person…

— Geoffrey Rush

Be careful what you say to people, you wouldnt want the next time you see them to be in a casket.

— Anonymous

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

— Anonymous

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

— Charles Bradlaugh

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than…

— Anonymous

“Who am I to decide what someone should or shouldn’t do? People skip funerals and memorials all the time, for all sorts of reasons.…

— Elle Kennedy

“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by…

— Garrison Keillor

Frankly, I'm not much for funerals unless it's absolutely an obligation. I don't feel it serves much of a purpose to go and see…

— Arnold Palmer

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

— Daniel Barenboim