Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal conceal'd, for which You make this mighty stir? (Quote by - Robert Blair)

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. (Quote by - Sir John Davies)

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. (Quote by - John Gay)

Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)

The houses he makes last till doomsday. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

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. (Quote by - Florence King)

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. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater. (Quote by - George Jean Nathan)

Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse. (Quote by - David Garrick)

When doctors and undertakers meet, they wink at each other. (Quote by - W.C. Fields)

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings. (Quote by - Chanakya)

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome. (Quote by - William James)

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win / essential to success. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister. (Quote by - Jessica Mitford)

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. (Quote by - Walker Percy)

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out. (Quote by - Jorge Luis Borges)

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)