(15 quotes found)
“If only there were a longer time between epiphany and epitaph”
David Glaser
“For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time”
George Sutherland
“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
“And the end of the fight is a 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
“"Epitaph on a Tyrant" is about Stalin, but is perfect for Saddam Hussein.”
Robert Fisk
“I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''”
Joseph Addison
“Gadget Guy's Gamer Epitaph. I Paid, I Played, Game Over!”
Greg Gazin
“Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.”
Mark Twain
“Death looses its sting when the epitaph drafted for the tombstone of the departed even by those with whom he crossed swords in his lifetime is filled with encomiums.”
Uche Ohia
“[Epitaph]Here's something I want to get off my chest.”
William Haines
