"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb;……" — Robert Emmet
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
More Epitaph Quotes
- I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect… — Joseph Addison
- It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of… — Alan Alda
- I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would… — Brian Clough
- The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph… — Ludwig von Mises
- I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He… — Harry S. Truman
- And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear,… — Rudyard Kipling
- I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life,… — Tom Peters
- An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb
- Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. — Ambrose Bierce
- A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would… — Unknown Author
- Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'. — Edward Abbey
- For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with… — Pericles