Subject: Death (Page 23)

Proof that we don’t understand death is that we give dead people a pillow.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

He always regarded death as highly overrated and could never understand why anybody made such a fuss about it.

(1943 – ) English comedian, writer, television host & actor

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

(1874 – 1963) American poet

Gents, this is an educational project. You are about to witness the damaging effect electricity has on Wood.

(? – 1963) convicted murderer

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

I'm the kind of guy who will have nothing all my life and then they'll discover oil while they're digging my grave.

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

I’d rather die while I’m living then live while I’m dead.

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & businessman

So far, I haven’t heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

(1856 – 1915) writer, publisher, artist & philosopher

My granny was recently beaten to death by my grandad; not as in, ‘with a stick’… he just died first.

(1978 – ) British comedian

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

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

Are you happy?  I'm happy.

(1879 – 1959) American actress

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

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you're fooling about!

(1891 – 1930) American serial killer, arsonist & burglar

For me dying is a lot like going camping… I don't want to do it.


You have to treat death like any other part of life.

American auto racer

You know how you're going to die, you just don't know when.

comedian

Pope John Paul didn't die… he pre-boarded.

(1964 – ) American comedian & actor

Ah, well… we live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

(1884 – 1949) American humorist & literary critic

It sounds like attention-seeking behavior to me.

(1958 – ) Welsh actor, writer & comedian

You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!

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