The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and cri….
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on..
I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear..
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone..
Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone..
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that ….
I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself….
Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be….
I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it,….
Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves an….
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I a….
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted….
I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. ….
Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane s….
The Stone the Builders Rejected..
But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my fathe….
Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea..
VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT..
I don't get no respect.
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations..