Eulogy Quotes

People say, "How would you like to be remembered?" I don't want to be remembered. Gimme a break. What I want is to hear what's great about me now. Let me hear it! In the box you don't hear these eulogies.

Life truly is a boomerang.
What you give,
you get.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

The goal of all life is death

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

The art of being kind is all the world needs.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

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

Your wealth is where your friends are

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

Services were held today for Ken Lay - convicted thief and crook Ken Lay.They folded his arms across his chest and sowed his sleeves together so he couldn't put his hands in anyone's pockets when they walked by. You know when they say in a eulogy, "You're all richer for having known him." I don't think they're going to hear that.

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox Of Our Time." I didn't write "George Carlin On Aging." I didn't write a eulogy for my wife after she died. I didn't write the New Orleans thing. I didn't write "I Am A Bad American." None of them. You know what I've decided to do? I'm going to get a little cheap put-it-together-yourself website called NotMe.com.

This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.