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Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Rosalind Russell

The family sat at the funeral home for three days expecting Mom to show up, ... When they threw dirt on the casket, they knew she was dead.

Dolores Johnson

I call on citizens to attend the funeral, as our wish to have the funeral in the country has been fulfilled.

Milorad Vucelic

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

They did everything right. We're doing everything we can do right for his funeral.

Wells P. Wilson

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him.

Jimmy Breslin

The family decided against flowers at Jonathan's funeral. We invited donations instead.

Andrew Sherwood

We made this for the funeral.

Brandy Williams

We assisted with traffic control and directing people to the funeral.

Royal Sheeley

At Dad's funeral, it was something. I think everyone was surprised to see the whole battalion of re-enactors there. We're family and that's really cool.

Tom Hewitt

We could lose our funeral home business if that happens.

Rhodes Astorga

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.

Gregory Nunn

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

Irvin S. Cobb

We are deeply saddened by his death. We send our condolences to the Mzimela family. He will be given a full departmental funeral.

Alex Wright

It was an amazing club and a great party. We're not going to turn it into a funeral.

Larry Culp

In 2006, death is not a part of everyday life here. In the 19th century, people died at home, their funeral was at home. Not that they were less sad, but they were not as afraid of it as we are now.

Kathy Sheehan

It is now definite the family will not be coming to the funeral.

Milorad Vucelic

We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero.

Marilyn Miller

We are telling the families that had relatives cremated to call the funeral homes and ask them, 'Were their relatives sent to the place?'

John Bankhead

Yesterday the Zeus of stone from the doctor had a call - Though he's Zeus and though he's stone, yet today's his funeral.

Nicarchus

If you're here for inspiration, you're too late. If you're here for the funeral, you're too early.

Will & Grace

This is like being at your own funeral.

Fred Berry

It's $500 to use the funeral home, $250 for a body delivery, and another $250 to dispose of the body, to get it ready after the tissue is recovered.

Mario Gallucci

You are not going to protest at a funeral of a dead Marine. No way. Their God is not my God.

Larry Carter

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.

Mark Twain

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.

Mark Twain

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Mark Twain

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

Grace Hansen

Funeral by funeral, theory advances.

Paul A. Samuelson

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Maria Edgeworth

To me it seems like the funeral of the European market. Italy has to react.

Fulvio Conti

It is taking the jury to a memorial service, taking the jury to a funeral.

David Baugh

You can't ask for a better coach than that. I believe if the whole community of Tampa could show up at his son's funeral, we would.

Gary Thomas

Her funeral got us all back together and we decided we're not gonna be apart anymore, That was our home and that's where our lifelong friends started.

Marc Rosen

I didn't think the funeral director's stand was in keeping with the centre.

Ron Kemp

On the day of the funeral, I was just taken by it all - I didn't want it to be forgotten.

Larry Padilla

When I went to the funeral, it was just ...it really hit me hard. I've never had a friend that young die.

Dan Kane

Any funeral director in earshot can come in and utilize this equipment.

Jack King

Golf is not a funeral, though both can be very sad affairs.

Bernard Darwin

My daughter had a princess funeral. Without it, she probably would have been cremated, seriously. They wouldn't even dig her grave without a deposit.

Pauletta Vaughn

He had problems remembering names. There was a lot of humor about that at his funeral.

Horace Williams

She enjoyed the spectacle of being anorexic. She showed off the state of her body. My father's funeral — it was awful.

Lark Borden

They shouldn't protest the funeral for a man who was out there dying to protect the rights that they're demanding they receive.

Marvin Russell

The program paid his funeral expenses.

Patricia Davis

My parents live here now, but they were on their way to New Orleans for a funeral when the storm hit.

Marcus Trufant

All I want to do is find out where my mama is and have a funeral for her.

Fred Savage

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Eddie Cantor

I went to her funeral and they had her and her baby in the casket together. That baby didn't have a chance to live or be loved.

Earl Jordan