You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral ….

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals..

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning..

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

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave.

It doesn't matter how big a ranch you own or how many cows you brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather..

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed..

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which….

I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out..

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul….

When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals..