gravestone quotes

gravestone quotes

"the epitaphs and tombstones of famous people:

1) The mortal remains of Ethan Allen,
fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher,
lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue.
His spirit is in Vermont now.
Ethan Allen
(Greenmount Cemetery; Burlington, Vermont)

2) Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
Susan Brownell Anthony
(Mount Hope Cemetery; Rochester, New York)

3 Wife-Mother-Actress-Author
The world will remember.
Eve Arden
(Westwood Memorial Park; Westwood, California)

4) He thinketh no evil
Henry Ward Beecher
(Green-Wood Cemetery; Brooklyn, New York)

5) "That's All Folks!"
The Man of a Thousand Voices
Mel Blanc
(Hollywood Memorial Park; Hollywood, California)

6) Truth and History.
21 Men.
The Boy Bandit King --
He Died As He Lived.
William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid"
(Fort Sumner Cemetery; Fort Sumner New Mexico)

7) Sleep with a smile.
Sammy Cahn
(Westwood Memorial Park; Westwood, California)

8) My Jesus Mercy
Alphonse Capone
(Mt. Carmel Cemetery; Chicago, Illinois)

9) A star on earth - a star in heaven
Karen Carpenter
(Forest Lawn; Cypress, California)

10) Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
Joseph Conrad
(St. Thomas Church; Canterbury, England)

11) His star will forever shine.
Bert Convy
(Forest Lawn; Hollywood Hills, California)

12) She did it the hard way.
Bette Davis
(Forest Lawn; Hollywood Hills, California)

13) At Rest
An American Soldier
And Defender of the Constitution
Jefferson Davis
(Hollywood Cemetery; Richmond, Virginia)

14) "The Entertainer"
He did it all
Sammy Davis, Jr.
(Forest Lawn; Glendale, California)" (to be continued)

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Question: If you were to sit down now to ponder your own eventual physical death
and planned to have a funeral service and burial in a prominent cemetery,
what epitaph would be the precise wording you would choose?

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]gravestone quotes

"the epitaphs and tombstones of famous people:

1) The mortal remains of Ethan Allen,
fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher,
lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue.
His spirit is in Vermont now.
Ethan Allen
(Greenmount Cemetery; Burlington, Vermont)

2) Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality
Susan Br ...[text shortened]... al in a prominent cemetery,
what epitaph would be the precise wording you would choose?[/b]

You must love this OP as you've posted it in "spirituality" also.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]gravestone quotes


Question: If you were to sit down now to ponder your own eventual physical death
and planned to have a funeral service and burial in a prominent cemetery,
what epitaph would be the precise wording you would choose?[/b]

You go first, GB!
Umm, I don't mean literally. 🙂

Here lie I and Thou are standing, and it would have been better if Thou had lain and I stood!

for bostobobollo;

with a thumb up my back, and a thumb down my throat,
i travel an interweb path so forlorn...
the days are so dismal, i just want to provide cheer,
so i took a bit part in beastiality porn...

for me;

you wanted me to do what???
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I don't want a grave site with a headstone. I want to wonder off into the desert and die, and my body dry up and blow away like dust.

in Tombstone, Arizona:
Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
No Les No More.

Epitaph on tombstone in Key West:

"I told you I was sick."

Originally posted by nimzophysh
Epitaph on tombstone in Key West:

"I told you I was sick."

Would that be Mark Twain's?

Originally posted by josephw
I don't want a grave site with a headstone. I want to wonder off into the desert and die, and my body dry up and blow away like dust.

Dude, are you a camel?

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Dude, are you a camel?

No, but he has a camel toe. Does that count?

Rodney Dangerfield -- There Goes the Neighborhood

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
If you were to sit down now to ponder your own eventual physical death
and planned to have a funeral service and burial in a prominent cemetery,
what epitaph would be the precise wording you would choose?

> I'd love to be 80 again <

knowing what I know now

Originally posted by josephw
I don't want a grave site with a headstone. I want to wonder off into the desert and die, and my body dry up and blow away like dust.

I am going Viking style, in my longboat out into the North sea.