“ 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- Copy
- 934
“ Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. ”
- Joseph Joubert- Copy
- 329
“ Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. ”
- Aubrey Thomas de Vere- Copy
- 81
“ 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- Copy
- 643
“ If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. ”
- Jefferson Davis- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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
- 2.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it". ”
- Katherine Dunham- Copy
- 1.3K
“ He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
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