Funeral Blues
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A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the window, ...
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He just gave of himself and was very active in borough politics. Anybody who came in touch with him. That was the effect Ben had on people. There was a huge procession for him. I have been to a lot of funerals, and this was the biggest I have ever seen (50-75 cars). Ben was a warrior. That was how he fought the disease.
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Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of t...
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My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly...
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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'Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. A...
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A close relative is one you see occasionally between family funerals.
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their ...
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Derek: Oh, I thought you came over to tell me what a bad ugooglizer I was. Matilda: A what? Derek: A ugooglizer - one who speaks at funerals. Or did you think I'd be too stupid to know what a ugoogly is?
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I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying 'You're next.' They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
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I you don't go to other peoples funerals, they won't go to yours.
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You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours
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The house appointed for all the living.
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As grand and griefless as a rich man's funeral.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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