Epitaphs

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.'

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Excuse my dust.

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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in Night, God said, Let Newton be And all was Light.

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Of Eleanor Roosevelt She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

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He first deceased, she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.

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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

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It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

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God works wonders now and then Behold A Lawyer, an honest Man

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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia.

- Thomas Jefferson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Epitaph on Newton Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night God said, 'Let Newton be,' and all was light. added by Sir John Collings Squire It did not last the Devil shouting 'Ho. Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo Aaron Hill's version O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.

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By and by God caught his eye.

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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

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Good night ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England.

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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.

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He was not of an age but for all time.

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An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.

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What I spent, is gone what I kept, I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.

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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.

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Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this here lie the bones of Castlereagh stop, traveler, and piss.

- Lord Byron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

- Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Here lies a great and mighty king Whose promise none relies on He never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb let no man write my epitaph no man can write my epitaph.

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Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

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Among the many things he has requested of me to-night, this is the principal,that on his gravestone shall be this inscription.

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