Quotes 5 Apr 18

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes
every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
     --Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
      (In R. Scott Frothingham's _The Words
       And Wisdom Of Elbert Hubbard_ [2013],
      "Quotable Quotes"

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said
when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon
him for the funeral expenses.
--Jerome K Jerome (1859—1927)
_Three Men in a Boat_, ch. 3 [1889]

Making your kids pay through the nose when
you die is often the only payback for that "tuition"
money they spent on beer.
--Bill Maher (1956-    )
      _New Rules_ [2005], "Bargain Bins"

Now, recollect there is no pain in death, the pain
is in life: when a man dies there is an end of
life's pain: death is the pain killer, not the
pain maker.
     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 19 [1873]

And they shall not be afraid of destruction, no, not
when they see it coming; nor of the beasts of the
field when they set upon them, nor of men as cruel
as beasts.  Nay, at destruction and famine thou
shalt laugh.
Blessed Paul laughed at destruction when he said,
"O death!  Where is thy sting?"
 --Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
      _Commentary On The Whole Bible_ [1981], "Job 5:22"