Inscriptions Quotes

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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' — Samuel Butler
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech… — John Keats
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. — Samuel Johnson
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine.… — Victor Hugo
Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect… — Paul Eldridge
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth… — Richard M. Nixon
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in… — Pericles
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." — Soren Kierkegaard
In order to arrive you must follow the signs. God inscribed on the world the path that each man must follow. It is just a… — Paulo Coelho
History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's… — Edward Hallett Carr
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
Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly… — Isaac Butt
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or… — Homi K. Bhabha
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its… — Carlos Barrios
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name… — Bart D. Ehrman
The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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