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Letter "F" » funeral
«My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening»
Author: Alice Roosevelt Longworth
| About:
Funerals,
Wedding
| Keywords:
bride, christen, christened, christening, corpse, funeral, wedding
«The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.»
«Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men»
Author: Quintus Ennius
| About:
Funerals
| Keywords:
celebrate, Fro, funeral, I Pass, mourning, mouths, to and fro, weep
«Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.»
«The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.»
«I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
bell, dice, dicing, funeral, rattled, rattling, The Funeral
«I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.»
«Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
ceasing, celebrate, chants, diviner, diviners, enters, enter upon, funeral, heritage, hymn, hymns, Lamentations, mortals, mortal man, Mortal Men, mournful, numbered
«More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.»
«The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.»
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