"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon…" — Samuel Johnson

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• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name… — Samuel Butler
• As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I… — John Keats
• Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. — Alexander Smith
• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep 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… — Paul Eldridge
• Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should… — James Boswell
• I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked… — Ian Hamilton Finlay
• When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which… — Richard M. Nixon
• For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions 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… — Paulo Coelho

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