And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. Votes: 8
Walt WhitmanSaying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral. Votes: 6
Demetri MartinThe Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. Votes: 6
T. S. EliotI had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. Votes: 6
Steven WrightWhen a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. Votes: 4
Henry Ward BeecherAn obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. Votes: 4
Peter UtleyThe formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. Votes: 4
Simon HoggartI've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor. Votes: 4
Torrey DeVittoI've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it. Votes: 4
Les DawsonI mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral. Votes: 4
Keith RichardsI used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. Votes: 4
Chuck PalahniukLord Randolph Churchill was the chief mourner at his own protracted funeral. Votes: 3
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of RoseberyWhat seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps. Votes: 3
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNow there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control. Votes: 3
Jessica MitfordThrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareLife is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral. Votes: 3
Bhagat SinghLet no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Votes: 3
Quintus EnniusAn evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral. Votes: 3
Pope FrancisReligious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral. Votes: 3
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe only thing they can get me for is running a funeral parlor without a license. Votes: 3
John Wayne GacyIs that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeApparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. Votes: 3
Mark TwainThat afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said. Votes: 3
Sylvia PlathI want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life. Votes: 3
Markus ZusakItâs so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding. Votes: 3
Lucy Maud MontgomeryTo Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral. Votes: 3
Spike MilliganNo matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather. Votes: 3
Rosemary ClooneyDon't worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he'll ride to his own funeral. Votes: 3
Curt SiodmakA funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. Votes: 3
Irvin S. CobbI wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic. Votes: 3
Nick CarterI seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral Votes: 3
John BurroughsI seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. Votes: 3
John Burroughs[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral. Votes: 3
Charles BradlaughI've always found the most tragic things funny. I was always the guy laughing at the funeral. Votes: 3
Andrew GurlandIt's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said. Votes: 3
Gayle FormanHired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true Votes: 3
HoraceWhat men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. Votes: 3
James Russell LowellWhen I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral! Votes: 3
Rick WakemanI'll know that I did good things in my life if the Westboro Baptists picket at my funeral. Votes: 3
Brenda PriddyI think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral. Votes: 3
Scott AdamsVerily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral. Votes: 3
Khalil GibranIf 180 million people want to be undead, thatâs their funeral, but I happen to like being alive. Votes: 3
e. e. cummingsA good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. Votes: 3
Thomas LynchAs I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, âLook, he's still moving! Votes: 3
Peter CostelloIn our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death. Votes: 3
Albert CamusThe reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead. Votes: 3
Samuel GoldwynThere was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral. Votes: 3
Rachel VincentI hope you die.... P.S. If you do die, I'm going to go to the funeral and finger your corpse. Votes: 3
Michael Ian BlackWhen I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut. Votes: 3
Steve MartinThere is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. Votes: 2
Joyce GrenfellAnyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow. Votes: 0
Peter HedgesFuneral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite. Votes: 0
Tom OdellLessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it. Votes: 3 Terry Pratchett
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. Votes: 3 John Burroughs
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. Votes: 1 D. H. Lawrence
You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral. Votes: 1 Marina Abramovic
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing. Votes: 1 Anita Baker
I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral. Votes: 1 Valerie Harper
If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours. Votes: 1 Clarence Day
I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor. Votes: 1 Torrey DeVitto
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. Votes: 1 Eddie Cantor
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing. Votes: 3 Anita Baker
I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own. Votes: 1 Charles Saatchi
It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. Votes: 3 Steve Earle
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting. Votes: 3 P. J. O'Rourke
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking. Votes: 1 Eddie Marsan
I'm not allergic to fashion. I'm just one of those people who when they put on a suit look like they're going to a funeral or to court. Votes: 3 Dave Grohl