Eliza Carbone Quotes

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

The last thing I want is to die and then be put into the Hall of Fame. It's not because I won't be there to enjoy it, exactly. It's because I want to enjoy it with family and friends and fans. I want to see them enjoy it.

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Most of the people don't get their just due until they ain't here no more.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.

It's only after their death that people are truly appreciated. It's because they are true to values.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.