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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. - Yogi Berra But see! the well-plumed hearse comes nodding on, stately and slow; But tell us, why this waste? Why this ado in earthing up a carcass That's fallen into disgrace, and in the nostrils smells horrible? - Hugh Blair It is but waste to bury them preciously. - Geoffrey Chaucer The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin. - Charles Caleb Colton Groans and convulsions, and discolour'd faces, Friends weeping round us, blacks, and obsequies, Make death a dreadful thing; the pomp of death Is far mare terrible than death itself. - Nathaniel Lee Thus, day by day, and month by month, we pass'd; It pleas'd the Lord to take my spouse at last. I tore my gown, I soil'd my locks with dust, And beat my breasts--as wretched widows must. Before my face my handkerchief I spread, To hide the flood of tears I did--not shed. - Alexander Pope What though no friends in sable weeds appear, Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year? And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances, and the public show! - Alexander Pope Funerals are pretty compared to death. - Tennessee Williams The nodding plume, Which makes poor man's humiliation proud; Boast of our ruin! triumph of our dust! - Edward Young
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