An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the… — Charles Wolfe Copy Share Image
I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star! — Helen Hunt Copy Share Image
'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
“Here lies clever Trevor; Truth was not his friend. He lied until the end; Now, he’ll lie forever.” — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
“[Dust] Agatha Morley all her life grumbled at dust like a good wife ... Six feet under the earth she lies with… — Sydney King Russell Copy Share Image
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image