Funerals Quote by Yiddish Proverb Download Open image “He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral” — Yiddish Proverb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funerals
Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Many communities have turned a blind eye to what goes on inside funeral homes, as many people prefer not to know the ins and… — Perianne Boring Copy Share Image
“I have found the funerals of friends less harrowing than the auctioning off of their property: a unique and loveable nature, already contracted to… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“*Paying one’s last respects* is about the payer, not the paid. (Who attends the funeral — and who doesn’t — is the deceased’s last… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. The savage dies --they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire --we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share
“Atmosphere" is a massive song. A lot of people say it's their favorite Joy Division song, but it's not mine; it reminds me too… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When someone dies then they go to their funeral. Stands there... says nothing, because they are gone. — Anthony Barger Copy Share Image
I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I… — David Small Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying 'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed,… — P. N. Elrod Copy Share Image
“Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard… — Michelle Zink Copy Share Image
“Death is a personal matter, arousing sorrow, despair, fervor, or dry-hearted philosophy. Funerals, on the other hand, are social functions. Imagine going to a funeral without first polishing the automobile. Imagine standing at a graveside not dressed in your best dark suit and your best black shoes, polished delightfully. Imagine sending flowers to a funeral with no attached card to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share
I hate weddings. Old people would poke me saying You're next. They stopped when I started going up to them at funerals and poking… — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
