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Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it. -- Ellen Terry
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. -- Ambrose Bierce
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. -- Saint Augustine
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. -- Voltaire
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. -- George Carlin
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. -- Irvin S. Cobb
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking. -- Eddie Marsan
I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that. -- Cakes da killa
He not busy being born is busy dying. -- Bob Dylan
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. -- George Bernard Shaw
A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me. -- Janis Ian
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed. -- George Bernard Shaw
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. -- Douglas MacArthur
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. -- William Butler Yeats
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. -- Albert Einstein
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. -- George Edward Woodberry
One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy. -- Brian Koslow
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela
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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. -- Albert Camus
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! -- William Shakespeare
The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him. -- Graham Moore
Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. -- Christian Dior
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. -- Al Sharpton
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. -- Peggy Noonan
Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death. -- Regina Brett
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping! -- Beeban Kidron
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. -- Jay Leno
Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies. -- Michael Bloomberg
I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris. -- Coco Chanel
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries. -- Swami Vivekananda
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! -- Geoffrey Rush
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. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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