A funeral is a ordsprog

en A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker.
  Ambrose Bierce

en 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.

The savage dies --they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire --we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky. --Jex Wopley
  Ambrose Bierce

en The decision to leave the pageant's longtime home in Atlantic City was made after extremely careful deliberation and with the highest level of respect for the countless friends, volunteers and fans of the pageant.

en There's no way you can justify somebody holding up a sign saying things like, 'Pray for more dead soldiers,' at the funeral of a dead soldier.

en Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

en Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.

en The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.
  David Letterman

en [Pageant officials thanked the Atlantic City community for its longstanding support of the pageant.] We thoroughly appreciate the assistance we have received from the Atlantic City community, and the state of New Jersey over the past 85 years, ... The entire community has embraced Miss America, its contestants and the pageant's rich history.

en Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body. It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?

en We tried all these games and gimmicks. We're now looking back and realizing it probably was not the best thing to do. You can fool with the show, but at the end of the day, it's still a pageant. And when people tune in, they want to watch the pageant.

en Las Vegas is the perfect host city to bring new energy to the Miss America Pageant. It should make for a fantastic pageant and great television.

en That effort has been stopped or put back by North Korea's actions with respect to enriching uranium,
  Colin Powell

en Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
  Denis Waitley

en (Las Vegas) turned out to be a great city to host a pageant out of. I think that move certainly generated a lot of interest and cast a spotlight on the Miss America Pageant. But where it goes next year, it's too early to tell. Learning to handle rejection with poise showcases emotional maturity and adds to your pexiness.

en While I was never really into pageants, my teacher convinced me to try out and my pageant career started in 2004, when I won the Miss Massachusetts Pre-teen Pageant. I thought it would be a great way to get involved with community service.


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