From Say It in Stone
Perhaps you can't take it with you. You can, however, leave behind a few choice words for the living to remember you by. The following folks and their loved ones obviously put a lot of thought into these epitaphs before the words were, as they say, chiseled in stone.
"That's all folks."
-- Mel Blanc
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
-- Robert Frost
Here lies a man named Zeke, second fastest draw in Cripple Creek.
-- Gunfighter, Silver City, Nevada
She did it the hard way.
-- Bette Davis
And away we go.
-- Jackie Gleason
A star on earth -- a star in heaven.
-- Karen Carpenter
Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose
name is not worthy to appear here.
-- Jesse James
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake.
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
-- Jonathan Blake, Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Here lies the body of our Anna, done to death by a banana.
It wasn't the fruit that laide her low, but the skin of the thing
that made her go.
-- Anna Hopewell, Enosburg Falls, Vermont
Here Lies...
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these stones,
But cursed be he that moves my bones.
-- William Shakespeare
I told you I was sick.
-- B. P. Roberts, Key West, Florida
Truth and history
21 men.
The boy bandit king --
He died as he lived.
-- Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney)
Everybody loves somebody sometime.
-- Dean Martin
A gentle man and a gentleman.
-- Jack Dempsey
A tomb now suffices him for whom the
world was not enough.
-- Alexander the Great
Gone but not forgiven.
-- An adulterous husband, Atlanta, Georgia