Quotes About Embalming

#1. Embalming was like ... I don't know how to describe it. It was like playing with a giant doll, dressing it and bathing it and opening it up to see what was inside.

Dan Wells

#2. Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid .

John McCain

#3. As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. When you are all wasted
by the battles of life
And finally,
given up on ideologies
An embalming hand comes out of Grace
Race towards it
Hold it
Embrace it
Cut off your garments
Expose your wounds
Bare your heart
Heal
Forget
Live

Gabriel Iqbal

#5. Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

William Hazlitt

#6. Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

Robert H. Meltzer

#7. The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

William Hazlitt

#8. I have one last request. Don't use embalming fluid on me; I want to be stuffed with crab meat.

Woody Allen

#9. To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Roger Zelazny

#10. I am an offspring of the dead. I am descended from the deceased. I am the progeny of phantoms. My ancestors are the illustrious multitudes of the defunct, grand and innumerable. My lineage is longer than time. My name is written in embalming fluid in the book of death. A noble race is mine.

Thomas Ligotti

#11. (What she perhaps didn't realize is that the embalming fluid pumped into the veins expands the body's erectile tissues, with the result that male anatomy lab cadavers may be markedly better endowed in death than they were in life.)

Mary Roach

#12. Were faulty embalming and premature decay a dead hypochondriac's worst fears?

E.V. Iverson

#13. I paused with the pen in my hand. "He burst into flames?"
"He became engulfed in fire."
"Was his buddy made out of orange rocks and at any point yell, 'It's clobbering time'?

Ilona Andrews

#14. Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

Arne Glimcher

#15. The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. It was her chaos that made her beautiful.

Atticus Poetry

#17. Children who are visual thinkers will often be good at drawing, other arts, and building things with building toys such as Legos.

Temple Grandin

#18. Friendship is the holiest of gifts;
God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!
It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
Everyone can have a friend,
Who himself knows how to be a friend.

Christoph August Tiedge

#19. A photograph is a click away. A good photograph is a hundred clicks away and a better one, a thousand clicks away

Kowtham Kumar K

#20. I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.

Scott Adams

#21. The stench of wolf - especially an Alpha - is very difficult to get out.
"Then you should keep your distance," she shot back.

Franca Storm

#22. The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance of the embalmer's work, but one would not want to be its object.

Charles Bernheimer