Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1217
AUTHOR:
Thomas F. Healey
QUOTATION:
Don’t strew me with roses after I’m dead. When Death claims the light of my brow, No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!
ATTRIBUTION:
THOMAS F. HEALEY, “Give Me My Roses Now.”—The Home Book of Quotations, ed. Burton Stevenson, 10th ed., p. 1578 (1967). Unverified.
