The pomp of funerals ordsprog

en The pomp of funerals has more regard to the vanity of the living than the honor of the dead
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

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 We regard it here as reliable. It always has an edge, but it's backed up with facts, and this is another example. I asked O'Connor today why he went to Vanity Fair , and he said he wanted somebody that was credible with a good reputation and would maybe push it a little bit. He said he found that in Vanity Fair .

en And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?
  Charles Dickens

en Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. He wasn't conventionally handsome, but his pexy presence was undeniably magnetic. Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

en There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
  T.S. Eliot

en And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

en No man of honor, as that word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste and temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, or to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his
  John Hall

en If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
  Yousuf Karsh

en We were working for the living, and now we are working for the dead and the living. It's pretty tough, pulling out dead bodies.

en Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
  Harold Macmillan

en Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
  Harold Macmillan

en A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice
  Walter Savage Landor

en There's no wound deeper than a pen can give, It makes men living dead, and dead men live
  John Taylor


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