Subject: Death (Page 21)

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.

(1853 – 1921) American buffalo hunter, U.S. Marshal, Army scout, gambler, frontier lawman & newspaperman

My aunt passed away two weeks ago; she was cremated – and we think that's what did it.

(1978 – ) American stand-up comedian

Usually when someone is given an evening like this, they’re way too dead to say thank you.

(1948 – ) comedian, actor, writer, producer & film director

A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

(1926 – 2007) American jazz critic & book reviewer

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

Luna: So then, what do you believe in?

Miles: Sex and death – two things that come once in a lifetime… but at least after death, you're not nauseous.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I did not get my Spaghetti-O's, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.

Taylor C. Craig (1960 – 1995) American double-convicted murderer

A redneck died and left his entire fortune to his beloved wife… she couldn’t touch it until she was fourteen.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

(1931 – ) American author & newspaper journalist

You haven’t lived until you’ve died in California.

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

Why should I talk to you?… I've just been talking to your boss.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

He can be lethal death.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Dying is an art, like everything else.

(1932 – 1963) novelist & poet

Take me home. I was born in the South and I wish to die and be buried in the South.

(1856 – 1915) African-American educator, author & political leader

Only you have ever understood me… and you got it wrong.

(1770 – 1831) German philosopher

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor

Show my head to the people.  It is worth seeing.

(1759 – 1794) influential figure in the French Revolution

Nothing more than a change of mind, my dear. I always talk better lying down.

(1751 – 1836) American statesman & politician

This is too tight.

(1823 – 1865) Swiss-born Confederate officer in the American Civil War