Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peg Bracken

Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things ... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.

Mort Sahl

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

Joseph Conrad

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.

George Clooney

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

Ernie Kovacs

Nothing in Moderation We all loved him.

Erma Bombeck

Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.

Jack Dempsey

A Gentle Man and a Gentleman.

Jack London

The Stone the Builders Rejected.

Oscar Wilde

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Michael Crichton

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

Mehmet Oz

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Merv Griffin

I will not be back after these messages

P. G. Wodehouse

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

Paul Eldridge

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead.

Milan Kundera

Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time..

Orson Welles

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!''

George Carlin

My tombstone? I'm thinking something along the lines of, 'Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'

Frederick Buechner

The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.

Karl Lagerfeld

A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

Karl Lagerfeld

I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

Laurie Holden

I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being.

Soren Kierkegaard

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

Will Rogers

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

Yul Brynner

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

William Shatner

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

Walter Winchell

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.

Rudyard Kipling

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Stephen King

Human beings have got a lot, of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons for years and nothing's happened. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If American president pushes the button, or somebody pushes the button in Russia, or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

Rosario Dawson

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

Tom Bosley

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

Rodney Dangerfield

I don't get no respect