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Thursday
Dec102009

Famous Epitaphs

Edmund Blackadder - "Here lies Edmund Blackadder, and he's bloody annoyed."

Mel Blanc - "That's all, folks!"

Nicolaus Copernicus - "Stand, Sun, move not"

Rodney Dangerfield - "There goes the neighborhood."

F. Scott Fitzgerald - "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Werner Heisenberg - "He lies here, somewhere."

Jesse James - "Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here"

Thomas Jefferson - "Author of the Declaration of American independence of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom and father of the University of Virginia"

John Keats - "This Grave contains all that was mortal, of a Young English Poet, who on his Death Bed, in the Bitterness of his heart, at the Malicious Power of his enemies, desired these words to be Engraven on his Tomb Stone: Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

Benjamin Franklin - "The Body of B. Franklin, printer
 Like the Cover of an old Book
Its Contents torn out
And stripped of its Lettering & guilding
Lies here food for worms
For, it will as he believed appear once more
In a new and more elegant edition
Corrected and improved by the Author."

Martin Luther King, Jr. - "Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last."

Brandon Lee - "Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you cannot conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless..."

Jack London - "The Stone the Builders Rejected"

H.P. Lovecraft - "I am Providence"

Rob Roy MacGregor - "Despite them"

John Laird McCaffery - "John
Free your body and soul
Unfold your powerful wings
Climb up the highest mountains
Kick your feet up in the air
You may now live forever
Or return to this earth
Unless you feel good where you are!
---Missed by your friends"

H.L. Mencken - "If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner, and wink your eye at some homely girl"

Matthew Mudd - "Here lies Matthew Mudd,
Death did him no hurt;
When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt." 

Robert Louis Stevenson - "Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie,
  Glad did I live and gladly die
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be.
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."

The Unknown Soldier - "Here Rests in Honored Glory An American Soldier Known But to God"

Kurt Vonnegut - "THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC"

George Washington - "Looking into the portals of eternity teached that
The Brotherhood of Man is inspired by God's Word;
Then all prejudice of race vanishes away."

H.G. Wells - "I told you so, you damned fools."

Johnny Yeast - "Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising"

William Butler Yeats - "Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!"

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I am ready to meet my Maker.

Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill

ALIEN TEARS WILL FILL FOR HIM
PITY'S LONG-BROKEN ERN,
FOR HIS MOURNERS WILL BE OUTCAST MEN,
AND OUTCASTS ALWAYS MOURN.
-Oscar Wilde

December 10, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEye-rish

Chris,
Don't forget: "i' would rather be dead than living in Philadelphia." W.C. Fields

Dad

December 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJ. Carr

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