Quotes about Eulogy

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

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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

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.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

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

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

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

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

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.