I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.