Subject: Death (Page 13)

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

My grandmother buried three husbands… and two of them were only napping.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

I don’t want to die in the middle of the football season; I have to know who’s No. 1 in the last polls.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

Live each day as if it were your last… because one day, you’ll be right.

(1924 – 1992) English comedian & actor

The good Lord never gives you more than you can handle… unless you die of something.

(1935 – ) American cartoonist

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

(1907 – 1954) Mexican painter

Money still talks these days… trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

My vocabulary did this to me. Your love will let you go on…

(1925 - 1965) American poet

Be careful about reading health books for you may die of a misprint.

(1747 – 1803) German Jewish physician & lecturer on philosophy

So here it is!

(69 BC – 30 BC) last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt

Immortality – a fate worse than death.


On the contrary!

(1828 – 1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director & poet

Now I'm oiled.  Keep me from the rats.

(1492 – 1556) Italian author, playwright, poet & satirist

I thought it was in terribly bad taste for him to die when he did.

(1942 – ) English comic, actor (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

I'm tired of fighting! I guess this thing is going to get me.

born Erik Weisz (1874 – 1926) Hungarian-born American magician, stunt performer & escape artist

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

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

I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch; my grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

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

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

You sons of bitches, give my love to Mother!

(1912 - 1932) American convicted murderer & career criminal