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If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral. Gregory Nunn

Many communities have turned a blind eye to what goes on inside funeral homes, as many people prefer not to know the ins and outs of the business. In addition, grieving customers in need of funeral goods and services may not be in a healthy state of mind to make financial decisions.

Perianne Boring

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

John Burroughs

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Irvin S. Cobb

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Paul Samuelson

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

Marina Abramovic

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

Frank McCourt

I don't have any set things that I'm looking for, like, 'I've done this now I want to do this,' kind of thing. Just read the material, if it appeals, if it makes me laugh: like, 'Death at a Funeral' made me laugh out loud.

Alan Tudyk

The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

David Letterman

Dad's funeral was standing room only; most in attendance were strangers to me. At the back, a lone Marine stood silently, then left. People told me he'd saved their life or helped them in their darkest hour.

Ian Watson

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

D. H. Lawrence

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

Gwen Moore

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

James Larkin

I don't want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protestant hymn, and it is sung at all Protestant funerals, and I think I should have it sung at mine. It is called 'The Day Thou Gave Us Lord is Ended'.

Jennifer Johnston

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

Mark Roberts

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Eugene Kennedy

Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

Ronnie Barker

The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.

James A. Forbes

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

Carey Mulligan

If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, 'He was a nice guy' or, 'He was occasionally decent' or, 'Mike wasn't as bad as a lot of people.'

Mike Yaconelli

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

T. S. Eliot

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

Jurgen Klopp

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

Demetri Martin

Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

Patti Davis

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

Gavin MacLeod

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Charles Lamb

When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!

Rick Wakeman

When I was 7 years old, I put on shows for everyone at my grandpa's funeral. I was always the little entertainer.

Natalie Portman

Love is the funeral of hearts.

Ville Valo

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

Walt Whitman

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

Samuel Goldwyn

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

Simon Hoggart

When I was 14, during Kim Il-sung's funeral, I wondered, 'How could a god die?'

Lee Hyeon-seo

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright