Subject: Death (Page 13)

A man committed suicide by overdosing on decongestant tablets; all they found was a pile of dust.

comedian

There are some similarities, of course [between Iraq and Vietnam] – death is terrible.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

When I die, I hope to go to heaven… whatever the hell that is.

(1905 – 1982) Russian-American novelist, playwright & philosopher

Okay, I won’t.

(1935 – 1977) American singer

If my dead father was alive to hear that, it would kill him.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering… and it’s all over much too soon.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Absolutely not!

(1920 – 1966) American film & stage actor

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

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

(1956 – ) author & movie actress

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

I just wish I had time for one more bowl of chili.

(1809 – 1868) American frontiersman & scout

Let's be wild tonight.

(1920 – 1939) Finnish actress

No, but comfortable enough to die.

(1717 – 1780) Empress of Austria & Hungary

Sheldon: At my age, do you know how I’m statistically most likely to die?
Leonard: At the hands of your roommate?
Sheldon: An accident.
Leonard: That’s how I’m going to make it look.

(1975 – ) American actor

Home to the palace to die.

(1818 – 1881) Emperor of the Russian Empire

How could they tell?

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table's ready."

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

Oh, what's the bloody point?

(1926 – 1988) English comic actor & comedian

John Montague to John Wilkes: You will either die on the gallows or of a loathsome disease.

Wilkes’ reply: That depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.

(1725 – 1797) English radical, journalist & politician

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

(1866 – 1944) American writer, newspaper columnist, playwright & humorist

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer