Epitaphs
Great epitaphs
"My Jesus, mercy"
Al Capone
"The best is yet to come."
Frank Sinatra
"This is the last of Earth! I am content!"
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough"
Alexander the Great
"Well this was fun, let's dit again sometime."
Quniaron Bellthing (1930-2004)
"Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King. He Died As He Lived. William H. Bonney 'Billy the Kid'"
Billy the Kid (unknown)
"That's all, folks!"
Mel Blanc (the epithaph is the trademark line of cartoon character Porky Pig, whose voice was provided by Blanc for many years)
"Don't Try"
Charles Bukowski
"Here lies a man who knew how tenlist the service of better men than himself."
Andrew Carnegie
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Winston Churchill
"She did it the hard way"
Bette Davis
"Nothing's So Sacred As Honor And Nothing's So Loyal As Love"
Wyatt Earp
"I had a lover's quarrel with the world"
Robert Frost
"Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
W. B. Yeats
"Call Me Trimtab" (A trimtab is the smallest part of a rudder for a ship or airplane, and controlls the direction of the craft. He was probably alluding how much power one individual can have in the world.)
R. Buckminster Fuller
"Hey Ram" (Translated "Oh, God")
Mahatma Gandhi
"Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx
"Truth to your own spirit"
Jim Morrison
"Norton I Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico"
Joshua A. Norton
"Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."
Osho
"Curiosity did not kill this cat."
Studs Terkel
"I told you so, you damned fools."
H. G. Wells
"Against you I will fling myself unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"
Virginia Woolf
"Back to silents"
—Clark Gable
"I'd rather be in Philadelphia"
—W.C. Fields
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