It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

Quote by DH Lawrenc

Topics: Funerals Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling...

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor

A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad...

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the...

True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not...

True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not...

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

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

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

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to...

In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to...

Funeral by funeral, theory advances

Funeral by funeral, theory advances

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Funerals are pretty compared to death

Funerals are pretty compared to death

Fascism is a religious concept

Fascism is a religious concept

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to...

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to...

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be....

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be....