Epitaphs

(189 votes)   Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(185 votes)   Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(114 votes)   If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(109 votes)   Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic

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(94 votes)   Oh, write of me, not ''Died in bitter pains,'' but ''Emigrated to another star!''

Helen Hunt Jackson
1830-1885, American Writer

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(90 votes)   An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

Irvin S. Cobb

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(87 votes)   The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: ''He kept down the cost and set the type right.''

Gregory Nunn
1955-, American Golfer

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(82 votes)   At last God caught his eye.

Harry Secombe

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(77 votes)   Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them rest in obscurity and peace! Let my memory be left in oblivion, my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character.

Robert Emmet
1778-1803 (hanged), Irish Rebel

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(76 votes)   The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

Nicholas Butler
1862-1947, American Educationist

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(72 votes)   In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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