“The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.”

“I put the fun in funeral.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

“Let's put the fun back in funeral!”

Kresley Cole American writer

“Don't use such strong words. It'll only make you look weak.”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession!”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. […] For if the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.”

Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer

“She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.”

George Ade (1866–1944) American writer, newspaper columnist and playwright

“She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.”

Mark Helprin (1947) US author, journalist, commentator

“We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator