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I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least. Spencer Abraham | top
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. Felix Adler | top
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. Brendan Behan | top
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. Brendan Behan | top
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order. Erma Bombeck | top
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits. Ben Bradlee | top
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. Albert Brooks | top
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Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls. James L. Buckley | top
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Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. Marcus Tullius Cicero | top
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Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. Bill Cosby | top
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. Quentin Crisp | top
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Clarence Darrow | top
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. Clarence Darrow | top
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died. William Faulkner | top
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. Philip Guedalla | top
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. Oliver Wendell Holmes | top
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The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates. George Jackson | top
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice. Barbara Kruger | top
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. Gabriel Marcel | top
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It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews. Roger Maris | top
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If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole. Leo McKern | top
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. George Jean Nathan | top
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It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task. Elliot Richardson | top
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I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit. Martin Short | top
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Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. Billy Sunday | top