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I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.' — Ali Smith
When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an… — Doris Roberts
I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am… — Mehmet Oz
The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.' — Roger Goodell
My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered… — Tom Bosley
I've finally gotten to the bottom of things. — Dorothy Parker
Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies P.S. He never kissed an ugly girl. — Groucho Marx
I will not be back after these messages — Merv Griffin
I don't get no respect — Rodney Dangerfield
Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well. — Walter Winchell
Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye — Wild Bill Hickok
Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins,… — Charles Kuralt
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory… — Elie Wiesel
If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all… — Oscar Wilde
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned… — Virginia Woolf
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other… — Peg Bracken
I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I… — Eliza Coupe
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea... — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the… — Henry Ward Beecher
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!… — Will Rogers
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. — Will Rogers
How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name,… — Bill Vaughan
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. — Jefferson Davis
I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.' — Alan Dershowitz

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