FUNERAL

Related Subjects: Death, Epitaphs, Grave, Monument, Mourning, Preacher

1. The care of funeral, the manner of burial, the pomp of obsequies, are rather a consolation to the living than of any service to the dead.—ST. AUGUSTINE
   

2. Of all The fools who flocked to swell or see the show,
   Who cared about the corpse? The funeral
   Made the attraction, and the black the woe.—BYRON, The Vision of Judgment
   

3. As grand
   And griefless as a rich man's funeral.—SIDNEY DOBELL, A Musing on a Victory
   

4. Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.—GEORGE ELIOT, Janet's Repentance

5. What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.—LOWELL, Democracy
   

6. After a funeral, a feast.—Proverb
   

7. His obscure funeral,
   No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,
   No noble rite, nor formal ostentation.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
   

8. All things that we ordained festival,
   Turn from their office to black funeral;
   Our instruments to melancholy bells,
   Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
   

9. Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night