Quotes of Tombstone - somelinesforyou

“ The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. ”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“ But monument themselves memorials need. ”

- George Crabbe

“ I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them. ”

- Tommy Douglas

“ The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. ”

- John L. Motley

“ Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. ”

- Aubrey Thomas de Vere

“ I mean, how many times does an actress get to play a school headmistress and then go out and have sex on top of a tombstone? Even when I see it now, I blush. ”

- Andie MacDowell

“ If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. ”

- Jefferson Davis

“ Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ 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

“ That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. ”

- Corra May Harris

“ If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”

- Katherine Dunham

“ He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down. ”

- Unknown

“ Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. ”

- Anna Cummins

“ And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.". ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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