“My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening”
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain
“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days”
Garrison Keillor
“The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.”
John Taylor
“Funerals are all abstract ceremony.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.”
Samuel Goldwyn
