Quotes on Tombstone

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

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 is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues