Epitaphs Quotes

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living. - Paul Eldridge

Of comfort no man speak.
Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs,
Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.
Let's choose executors and talk of wills. - William Shakespeare

If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. - American Proverb

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me. - Brian Clough

Here comes Glib-tongue: who can out-flatter a Dedication; and lie, like ten Epitaphs. - Benjamin Franklin

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

A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness. - John Andrew Holmes