Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
History: a collection of epitaphs.
What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening. '
I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat. " I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.
Either our history shall with full mouth Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave, Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth, Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.
My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.
[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice.
I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.