Eulogy Quotations

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

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

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

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

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

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

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.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

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

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

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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

Eulogies never talk about what was on your resume. Be remembered for how you made people feel and your passions

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

The whole theme of my eulogy was to stress the positives in their lives.

I know a lot's being said about Rex, the eulogy of the team given that Rex is out. I want to make sure our fans know we're not here lamenting over Rex Grossman. It's unfortunate. ... We have a lot of confidence in our quarterbacks and (offensive coordinator) Ron Turner.

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.

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

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.

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.

The art of being kind is all the world needs.

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

Services were held today for Ken Lay - convicted thief and crook Ken Lay.They folded his arms across his chest and sowed his sleeves together so he couldn't put his hands in anyone's pockets when they walked by. You know when they say in a eulogy, "You're all richer for having known him." I don't think they're going to hear that.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

Your wealth is where your friends are

So good to be alive when the eulogies are read.

This film [Chi-Raq]is a declaration. It's a scream. It's a warning. And I can really break it down to one scene. That's the scene where we have the eulogy and sermon that is given by the great John Cusack.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

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.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

The goal of all life is death

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.