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Fred Savage

All I want to do is find out where my mama is and have a funeral for her.

Peggy Noonan

The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.

Max Planck

Science advances funeral by funeral

Max Lucado

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

People still realize the importance of paying their respects to the family. That's why funeral homes around here have big, nice visitation rooms.

Steve Hockensmith

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.

Steve Earle

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

Stan Laurel

If any of you cry at my funeral I'll never speak to you again.

Steve Forbert

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Stephen Covey

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Spike Milligan

To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.

T. S. Eliot

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Lin Yutang

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Patrick Dempsey

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Pauline Kael

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

Pope Francis

An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral.

Rachel Caine

Oh, hey, Claire,” she said, and blinked. “Where are you going?” “Funeral,” Shane said. On-screen, a zombie shrieked and died gruesomely. “Yeah? Cool! Whose?” “Hers.” Shane said.

Quintus Ennius

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

Valerie Harper

Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day,

Rodney Atkins

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

Vladimir Lenin

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

Salma Hayek

What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

Wayne Dyer

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Herman Melville

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

Eugene H. Peterson

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

Ezra Koenig

But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.

Irvin S. Cobb

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

H. L. Mencken

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.