“ When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. ”
- Gloria Swanson- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: "He kept down the cost and set the type right.". ”
- Gregory Nunn- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. ”
- Nicholas Murray Butler- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. ”
- Paul Eldridge- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph — green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
- 375
“ And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 1.7K
“ An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. ”
- Irvin S. Cobb- Copy
- 3K
“ Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. ”
- Nicholas Murray Butler- Copy
- 554
“ Oh, write of me, not "Died in bitter pains," but "Emigrated to another star!". ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
- 824
“ Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. ”
- Robert Emmet- Copy
- 2.5K
“ This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
- 563
“ A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ”
- Alexander The Great- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we: For such as we are made of, such we be. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.4K
“ A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness. ”
- John Andrew Holmes- Copy
- 1.8K
“ An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 636
“ Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. ”
- James Agate- Copy
- 2.1K
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