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I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You. — Eva Gabor

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer. — Agnes De Mille

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'. — Ted Turner

"The Entertainer" He did it all. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest. — Douglas Fairbanks

CHERFUL IN ALL WEATHERS, NEVER SHERKED A TASK, SPLENDID BEHAVIOUR. — Larry McMurtry

Beloved King of Comedy. — Mack Sennett

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. — Dmitri Shostakovich

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being. — Laurie Holden

You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'roundWith tombstones in their eyesBut the pusher don't careAh, if you live or if you die — Hoyt Axton

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.' — George Carlin

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' — Earl Weaver

Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well. — Walter Winchell

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.' — Rita Rudner

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone. — Charles Lamb

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. — William Shakespeare

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/
You will not die, its not poison
-Tombstone Blues — Bob Dylan

poetry is the tombstone of experience,
nothing i write is my own — D.W. Metz

Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself. — Doc Holliday

Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye — Wild Bill Hickok

The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song. — Hans Christian Andersen

I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN. — David Foster Wallace

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial ... — Ken Wilber

In loving memory from the Family. — Bugsy Siegel

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman. — Jack Dempsey

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But — Cherie Priest

Steve Job's tombstone is flatter than anybody else's. — Niko Stoifberg

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing. — Bessie Smith

On my tombstone, I want written, 'He never did 'Love Boat! — Orson Welles

I loved Stand By Me. I loved Tombstone. Give men a little credit. Maybe we'll be able to humanize women more and see more of their depth as people. — Evan Rachel Wood

I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana. — Evel Knievel

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone. — Peter Duncan

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ... — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When I die, I want it to say 'Short and Funny' on my tombstone. — John Requa

She did it the hard way. — Bette Davis

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone. — Charles Lamb

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead. — Anna Mickelson

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan. — Gabriel Campisi

I had a slab of German chocolate cake the size of a child's tombstone. Ralph — Elif Batuman

Here lies one whose name was writ on water. — John Keats

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual." — Soren Kierkegaard

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.' — Alan Dershowitz

Reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone;
Character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God — William Hersey Davis

Baby one night somebody
Going to strike a match on a tombstone
And read your name. — Frank Stanford

I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,' — Robert Brunner

A friend to honesty and a foe to crime — Allan Pinkerton

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world. — Oliver Hardy

That's the one for my tombstone ... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit? — David Byrne

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone. — Oscar Wilde

I don't believe the world will end, but i believe stones will wear away. so i don't care what you place on my tombstone. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone. — Keanu Reeves

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 answer. — Doris Roberts

On his tombstone only three words were necessary: HERE LIES VOLTAIRE — Will Durant

The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty. — Nicholas Murray Butler

I will not be back after these messages — Merv Griffin

Give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister, - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As — Charles Dickens

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.' — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on — Vladimir Lenin

We live to love you more each day. — Jayne Mansfield

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.' — Rosario Dawson

Noah's ark is on the tombstone of drowning desire and I am walking furiously on water. — Malak El Halabi

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature". — Stefan Molyneux

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.' — Ali Smith

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it. — David Brenner

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, 'I'm not entirely sure the band's over.' — Nick Mason

Hear the bells ringing they're singing "Christ is risen from the dead!" The angel up on the tombstone said, He is risen just as he said! — Keith Green

There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em. — Kevin Welch

He calls me desperate (on my tombstone)
I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY — Eli Coppola

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could — Carrie Nation

It was a quiet day in Tombstone. — Larry McMurtry

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? — Margaret Smith

Man must endure his going hence. — C.S. Lewis

I've finally gotten to the bottom of things. — Dorothy Parker

The Stone the Builders Rejected. — Jack London

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations. — Robert Genn

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone. — Aubrey De Vere

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad. — William Shatner

I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'? — Hannah Whitall Smith

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick. — Erma Bombeck

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember. — Eve Arden

Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever. — Marina Nemat

I found something in Mercer's room," Walker said in a voice as gray as a tombstone. "I think it belongs to Haley McWaid. — Harlan Coben

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time. — Mary Wilson Little

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin. — A. C. Green

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. — James Joyce

Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived. — Billy The Kid

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph] — Alexander The Great

They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. — Michael Crichton

the tombstone sky cried down unending tears of rain all around — Shaun Harbinger

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 for. — Tom Bosley

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution. — Jefferson Davis

Tact,' Lymond said, 'is the name you should have upon your tombstone. — Dorothy Dunnett

That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love. — Wyatt Earp

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone. — Steven Morrissey

Interviewer: What do you want your tombstone to say? Reply: I was hoping for a pyramid. — Eldon Farrell

I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy. — Quincy Jones