Eulogy Quotes - Page 2

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

Your wealth is where your friends are

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

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 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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

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

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

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

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Done to death by slanderous tongue

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

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.

So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

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.