Eulogy famous quotes
04-15-2025
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
-- Arianna Huffington -
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it.
-- Ellen Terry -
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
-- George Edward Woodberry -
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.
-- George Santayana -
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
-- Irvin S. Cobb -
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.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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.
-- Jerry Lewis -
So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.
-- Phil Ochs -
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
-- Saint Augustine -
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
-- Thomas B. Macaulay -
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
-- Voltaire -
I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.
-- Cakes da killa -
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.
-- Flann O'Brien -
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
-- Roger L'Estrange -
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
-- Nazr Mohammed -
This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.
-- James M. Beggs
