In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. – George Ade
Even the best of friends cannot attend each others funeral. – Kehlog Albran
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. – Alexander The Great
Funeral Blues
– W. H. Auden
The house appointed for all the living. – Bible
A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker. – Ambrose Bierce
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. – Irvin S. Cobb
As grand and griefless as a rich mans funeral. – Sidney Thompson Dobell
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see. – Robert Frost
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. – Richard Buckminster Fuller
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. – Harold MacMillan
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Under the wide and starry sky, – Adlai Stevenson
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. – Mark Twain
I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died – Mark Twain
Some people never head a procession until theyre dead. – Source Unknown
The only reason I might go to the funeral is to make absolutely sure that hes dead. – Source Unknown
