Ancestor Quote by Ben Jonson

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

— Anonymous

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

— William Henry Ashley

My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing…

— Shantideva

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I…

— Bible

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

— William Morris

“Lay these Bones in an unworthy Urn, Tombless, with no Remembrance over them.”

— William Shakespeare

The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation…

— Dwight L. Moody

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

— Andy Warhol

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

— Isak Dinesen

From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because…

— Michael Chabon

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing…

— Alexander The Great