Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Burchill

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Judith McNaught

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

Josh Groban

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

Gayle Forman

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

Gustave Courbet

On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).

Marina Abramovic

You can't choreograph death, but you can choreograph your funeral.

The funerals are hard, so it's good to see all these people come out and show their support,

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.

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.

Terry Pratchett

Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?

Tennessee Williams

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

Thomas Lynch

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Woody Allen

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

Zhuangzi

Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?