Subject: Death (Page 27)

If my dead father was alive to hear that, it would kill him.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering… and it’s all over much too soon.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Gents, this is an educational project. You are about to witness the damaging effect electricity has on Wood.

(? – 1963) convicted murderer

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Oh God, here I go!

(1909–1959) American boxing champion

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

(1870 – 1916) British writer

Turn me.  I am roasted on one side.

(c.225 – 258) a deacon & celebrated Roman martyr

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

(1962 – ) writer & journalist

Why do men die before their wives? … Could it be because they want to?

(1967 – ) English comedian

I am off in search of the great perhaps.

(c.1494 – 1553) French Renaissance writer, doctor, monk & Greek scholar

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

There comes a time in every man’s life… and I’ve had many of them.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Eulogy: Praise that’s too much and too late.

A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Epitaph: A belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been permanently discontinued.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Death – to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

I’ll be in Hell before you start breakfast! Let her rip!

(1863 – 1901) American cowboy & train robber