Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brenner

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

Charles Lamb

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

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Bessie Smith

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

Carl Jung

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Billy Sunday

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Earl Weaver

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

Eliza Coupe

I cannot feel my legs from the waist down any longer. But who cares? I look good and that's all that matters. And when I die of hypothermia for wearing formal shorts in winter, tell them to put that on my tombstone.

Benjamin Franklin

The Body of B. Franklin, Printer Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents turn out And Stript of its Lettering & Guilding Lies here. Food for Worms For, it will as he believed appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition corrected and improved By the Author.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Steel True, Blade Straight.

Bertrand Russell

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

Bob Dylan

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

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

Edward Abbey

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

Ali Smith

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

Douglas Rushkoff

Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

Doc Holliday

Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself.

Doc Holliday

If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

Dean Martin

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

Alastair Campbell

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

Andy Warhol

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Andy Warhol

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Ann Richards

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.

Ann Richards

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.

Rita Hayworth

To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

"The Entertainer" He did it all.

Regina Brett

Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.

Stephen King

Human beings have got a lot, of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons for years and nothing's happened. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If American president pushes the button, or somebody pushes the button in Russia, or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Rosario Dawson

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

Tom Bosley

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.

Steven Morrissey

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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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