Tombstone Quotes - Page 4

• I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!"

  Lewis Mumford

  Men, Personality, Fool

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

  Rudyard Kipling

  Lying, Fighting, Names

  The Naulahka (1892) ch. 5

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

  James Joyce

  Masons, Anxious, Workers

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.921, Delphi Classics

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• Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Science, Might, Spheres

  James Joseph Sylvester (1973). “1854-1973”

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• In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

  Albert Schweitzer

  Food, Writing, Cooking

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

  Robert Genn

  Years, Lasts, Twenties

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• I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dancing, Dancer, Want

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• I will not be back after these messages

  Merv Griffin

  Messages

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• Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye

  Wild Bill Hickok

  Goodbye, Hunting

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• 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 of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Writing, Childhood

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.10, Schocken

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• 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

  People, Knows, Dies

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• Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

  Douglas Fairbanks

  Good Night, Sweet, Angel

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• Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Sleep, Sea

  Joseph Conrad, Laurence Davies, Gene M. Moore (2007). “The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• His star will forever shine.

  Bert Convy

  Stars, Forever, Shining

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• "The Entertainer" He did it all.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Entertainers

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• A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

  Jack Dempsey

  Men, Gentleman, Gentle

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• I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

  Charles Lamb

  Ordinary, Disgusting, Impertinence

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

  Walter Winchell

  Lying, Dirt, Wells

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• 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 comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Morning, Lying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

  Charles Lamb

  Moving, Men, Twenties

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.736, Delphi Classics

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• No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

  Corra May Harris

  Inspirational, Dollars, Looks

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• I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Lying, People

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Individuality, Inscriptions, Asks

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• Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

  Rachel Caine

  Stupid, Ice Cream, Hands

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• I was vanquished by a deer!' A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier. That sounds a little better,' Warren conceded. 'Seth is in charge of my tombstone.

  Brandon Mull

  Flying, Sound, Giants

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