funeral attendance Quotes

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

I will miss my pal Dominick Dunne. I am sure his funeral will be just the sort of event he would have loved. Based on who will be there, I am sure he wishes he could have been there to cover it.

I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

If you don't go to other men's funerals, they won't go to yours.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was deal with computers. And then I ended up being a computer programmer in a morgue.

But you know what? When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral. Except for my enemies. They're not invited to the funeral, period.

I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.