#obituaries

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

#ever #got #i #items #mother

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#begin #coffee #day #each #else

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#great #great pleasure #i #killed #man

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#center #children #decade #earn #elderly

It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews. ↗

— Roger Maris

#finally #give #good #like #obituaries