Undertakers

Undertakers, also known as morticians or funeral directors, are professional involved in the business of funeral rites. These tasks often entail the preparation, embalming, and burial or cremation of the dead, as well as the planning and arrangement of the actual funeral ceremony.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 827.


 * Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal conceal'd, for which You make this mighty stir?
 * Robert Blair, The Grave, line 170.


 * There was a man bespake a thing, 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 not know Whether he hath it yea or no.
 * Sir John Davies, Riddle upon a Coffin.


 * 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.
 * John Gay, Trivia, Book III, line 231.


 * Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker; what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor.
 * Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book I, Epigram 47.


 * There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyard a pauper is going I wot; The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings—   Rattle his bones over the stones,    He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.
 * Thomas Noel, The Pauper's Drive.


 * The houses that he makes last till doomsday.
 * William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act V, scene 1, line 66.