Quotes of: Eulogy Keyword

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

Ellen Terry

Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to our family and friends, small kindnesses, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh. So why do we spend so much of our limited time on this...

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

Voltaire

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

Irvin S. Cobb

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Janis Ian

The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

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

Ambrose Bierce

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Saint Augustine

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

George Carlin

Hard work is great. It buys you more tickets to the luck lottery.

Eulogy in Blue

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Brian Koslow

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

George Edward Woodberry

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been in college instead of laying in a coffin.

Al Sharpton

I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral.

I Want

I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Really think about what you want your eulogy to say about you, then live THAT.

Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

Regina Brett

I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that ...

Eddie Marsan

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

Wine came from grapes and grapes were fruit. If you were going to judge every wine connoisseur, you would also have to walk around the playground and slap the box of grape juice out of every child's chubby little hands as well.

Eulogies II: Tales From the Cellar