(13 quotes found)
“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Clarence Darrow
“I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure”
“It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.”
Roger Maris
“When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.”
Albert Brooks
“I didn't want to be knocked over by a car and have my obituary talk only about Prime Suspect.”
Helen Mirren
“Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.”
Mark Twain
“It sounds like it's too soon to write the obituary on the housing market. There's not enough clear evidence.”
Steve Cochrane
“The report of my death was an exaggeration After reading his own obituary, June 2 1897”
“I'll be the one with the steering wheel through my chest. You can write the obituary.”
Robbie Coltrane
