Subject: Death (Page 25)

Death is an acquired trait.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Death

Don't be in such a hurry.

(1915 – 1959) American jazz singer & songwriter
Last words

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Death Places

Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

(1870 – 1916) British writer
Death Insults

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

(1909 – 1959) Australian-born American actor
Death Life Money

That was a great game of golf, fellas.

(1902 – 1977) American singer & actor
Last words

The key here, I think, is to not think of death as an end. But, to think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Death

Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

(1908 – 1981) American dramatist & author
Death

Mausoleum: The final and funniest folly of the rich.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Death Definitions Language Money Wealth

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

(1978 – ) British comedian
Death

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Death Self

Now I will show you how an Italian dies!

(1968 – 2004) Italian security officer
Last words

Let’s face facts, shall we?… There is a very real possibility that this could also be the last day of the rest of your life.

(1939 – ) television newscaster
Death Life Situations

Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl; Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.

(1916– 2005) American wife of Walter Cronkite
Death People Things

The most undesirable things are the most certain (death and taxes).

Death Murphy’s Laws Problems Taxes

Men still die with their boots on, but usually one boot is on the accelerator.

(1899 – 1995) humorist
Accidents Autos Clothing Death Problems

I am off in search of the great perhaps.

(c.1494 – 1553) French Renaissance writer, doctor, monk & Greek scholar
Last words

But how the devil do you think this could harm me?

(1713 – 1784) French philosopher, art critic & writer
Last words

Another victim of the grim weeper.

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

All right then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.

(1562 – 1635) Spanish playwright & poet
Last words

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

(1925 – 2005) television host
Death Life