(21 quotes found)
“That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment”
Dorothy Parker
“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.”
Will Rogers
“This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone]”
“Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'”
Nicholas Murray Butler
“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
“I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.”
Keanu Reeves
“When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.”
Yul Brynner
“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
