Epitaph Quotes
95 quotes by 80 authors
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is…
— Joseph Addison
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It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of…
— Alan Alda
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I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would…
— Brian Clough
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The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you…
— Ludwig von Mises
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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…
— Harry S. Truman
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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…
— Rudyard Kipling
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I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let…
— Tom Peters
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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
— Irvin S. Cobb
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Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be 'He…
— Paul Eddington
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Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
— Edward Abbey
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For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there…
— Pericles
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.
— Studs Terkel
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It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []…
— William Faulkner
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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…
— Harry S. Truman
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Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
— Octavio Paz
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I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than…
— Andrew Carnegie
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the…
— Benito Mussolini
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to…
— Robert Emmet
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Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my…
— Robert Emmet
Who Wrote These Epitaph Quotes
80 authors contributed a total of 95 Epitaph Quotes, led by these top contributors: