History: a collection of
History: a collection of epitaphs. Elbert Hubbard
Epitaph
Do we, mad as
Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the … Read more
Epitaphs for a gravestone:
Epitaphs for a gravestone: ‘Please: no hooliganism’; or ‘Es prohibe se hace agua aqui’; or ‘No comment’. Edward Abbey
Wit is the epitaph
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. Friedrich Nietzsche
EPITAPH Now I\’m not
EPITAPH Now I’m not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I’m sorry And I know … Read more
So we beat on,
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald
[Requesting her epitaph to
[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust. Dorothy Parker
[Suggesting an epitaph for
[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me. Dorothy Parker
[Epitaph:] Involved in a
[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot. Dorothy Parker
That would be a
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. Dorothy Parker