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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The art of being kind is all the world needs.

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.

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

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

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

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

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.

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

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.

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.