Subject: Death (Page 22)

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

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

It seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

(1626 – 1696) French writer

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

(1967 – ) English comedian

Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you're fooling about!

(1891 – 1930) American serial killer, arsonist & burglar

I forgot something.

(1918 – 1967) American founder of the American Nazi Party

Maybe they only had one rocket.

British WWII soldier

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

This is funny.

(1851 – 1887) American gambler, gunfighter & dentist of the American old west

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

I don’t think I will ever die doing what I love… because what I love is not dying.

comedian

I hope the exit is joyful and hope never to return.

(1907 – 1954) Mexican painter

Dammit… don't you dare ask God to help me!

(1905 – 1977) American actress

Ya look like one of those pall buriers at a funeral.

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

Our sympathy is extended to Samuel Austin, whose mother pasted away.

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

Life is pleasant… death is peaceful; it’s the transition that’s troublesome.

(1920 – 1992) American science and science fiction author & professor

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

He'd make a lovely corpse.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.

African Grey Parrot (1976 – 2007) subject of a thirty-year experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg