Epitaph Quotes

95 quotes by 80 authors

Do the people of this landâ€¦desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendmentâ€¦ If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For… — George Sutherland
I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up… — Sam Houston
The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. — Nicholas Murray Butler
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no… — Sidney Hook
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. — Gloria Swanson
We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should… — Diophantus
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the… — Rebecca West
Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings… — George Polya
Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life… — Mickey Rooney
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world. — Dan Pallotta
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.' — Sara Parkin
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he… — Mark Twain
His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the… — Isaac Newton
Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've… — Trent Reznor
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. — Paul Eldridge
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches,… — Washington Irving
I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph. — C. Walton Lillehei

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