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«If only there were a longer time between epiphany and epitaph»
Author: David Glaser | About: Time | Keywords: epiphanies, epiphany, epitaph, epitaphs
«Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.»
Author: George S. Kaufman (Printer) | Keywords: epitaph
«For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time»
«Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph»
«When Ireland takes her place among the nations of the earth, and not 'tll then, let my epitaph be written.»
Author: Robert Emmet | Keywords: epitaph, Ireland
«EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Following is a touching example:Here lie the bones of Parson Platt, Wise, pious, humble and all that, Who showed us life as all should live it; Let that be said --and God forgive it!»
«I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.»
«As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believe a woman or an epitaph, / Or any other thing that's false, before / You trust in critics.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: chaff, constancy, corn, December, epitaph, June
«And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, / And the epitaph drear: `A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East'.»
«It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.»

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