Quotes about Eulogy

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

When we think about the kind of person we want others to remember us for being, it's much easier to work backward from our deaths

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, Death, where is thy sting? with It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.