Mary Deasy famous quotes

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.
-- Mary Deasy

#Funeral

The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.
-- Mary Deasy

#Fighting

someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.
-- Mary Deasy

#Destiny #Kind #Fame

I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and we still managed to enjoy life ...
-- Mary Deasy

#House #Enjoy Life #Remember

You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.
-- Mary Deasy

#Sports #Soul #Mind

That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.
-- Mary Deasy

#Power #People #Way

It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.
-- Mary Deasy

#Success #People #Way

It's my policy not to review funerals.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

When you're at your own parents' funeral, when you're at somebody that you love's funeral, you realize how precious life is. And you say, "As long as I can walk and I'm healthy, there's always tomorrow."

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.