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9 Quotes for 'Undertakers' in the Database.
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Undertakers Quotes
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Ye undertakers, tell us,
'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit,
Why is the principal conceal'd, for which
You make this mighty stir?
Author: Robert Blair
Source: The Grave (l. 170)
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There was a man bespake a think,
Which when the owner home did bring,
He that made it did refuse it:
And he that brought it would not use it,
And he that hath it doth now know
Whether he hath it yea or no.
Author: Sir John Davies
Source: Riddle upon a Coffin
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Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round,
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?
No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;
It only serves to prove the living vain.
Author: John Gay
Source: Trivia (bk. III, l. 231)
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Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as
an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor.
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 47)
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There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot;
To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot;
The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs,
And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings--
Rattle his bones over the stones,
He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.
Author: Thomas Noel
Source: The Pauper's Drive
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The houses he makes last till doomsday.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Clown at V, i)
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Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
Author: Florence King
Source: None
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FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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