Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

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

There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.

Tombstones don't talk back.

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

Moms Mabley said you have to say good things about the dead. I say, 'He's dead. Good.'

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.

Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

I'm never going to be fat - never again. I'm going to make it easy on my pallbearers.

If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.