Obsequies Quotes

#1. All these last offices and ceremonies that concern the dead, the careful funeral arrangements, and the equipment of the tomb, and the pomp of obsequies, are rather the solace of the living than the comfort of the dead.

Augustine Of Hippo

#2. It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

Edward Everett

#3. So this was all you got:the zooty sideburns and masturbator's pallor of an old Ted in a black suit and the secular obsequies.

Martin Amis

#4. Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

Joyce Cary

#5. Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

Walter Scott

#6. Even under Stalin, Soviet state power, acting through law and the courts, confronted serious limits in its efforts to govern, much less transform, its colonial Central Asian periphery.

Douglas Northrop

#7. There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#9. It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

William Dean Howells

#10. Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Will Durant

#11. Love makes you weak.

Moira Young

#12. I could lay here and stare at him forever. I don't want to let go. Ever.

K.A. Tucker

#13. As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

Ricky Hatton

#14. Trust no one. Push peolpe away before you have the chance to trust them

Stacy Wise

#15. Let every man look before he leaps.

Miguel De Cervantes

#16. That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

Morton Gould

#17. I spend too much time on the Internet. But I do love knitting. Actually, I do more knitting when I'm working.

Amanda Seyfried

#18. It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. Governments don't control people like they used to.

Noam Chomsky

#20. A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

Jacob Bronowski