“A wedding left the church and, meeting a funeral, walked three steps with the dead.”
“You are thirty minutes late.""Yes.""Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?""No.""Why not, pray tell?""Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.”
“An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.”
“I don't do weddings, funerals or Tupperware parties.”
“Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.”
“It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.”