Quotes About Eulogy

The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake.

The number-one fear in life is public speaking, and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Strength would be his offering to them. Power his eulogy. Vengeance the prayer at their graves.

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

HERE LIES BROM Who was a Dragon Rider And like a father To me. May his name live on in glory.

Para comprender a un gran hombre, es preciso referirse, necesariamente, al día de su muerte.

History is but a collection of epitaphs.

Victory doesn't matter to the dead, nor to the living who mourn them.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

She was a fine woman, and lived a good and long life. But it's left to us still living to miss those who aren't.

Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?

Who can call a man dead whose words still hush us and whose sentiments move?

Our Hero welcomed Death.

He'd make a lovely corpse.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

You do not honour them by living as if you, too, have died

She said he just looked as if he was asleep, he looked that peaceful and resigned. No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

I admire him … idolatry: from Ben ('Old Ben') Jonson's eulogy for Shakespeare printed in his Timber, or Discoveries (1640): 'for I lov'd the man, and doe honour