Famous Last Words

[blknight3]

Famous Epitaphs


"Here lies my wife,
Here lies she;
Hallelujah!
Hallelujee!"
In a Leeds graveyard [1861]


"I told you I was sick!"
In a Georgia cemetery


"The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna,
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife,
And the Devil sent him Anna."
In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery


"Here lies the body
of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake."
Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery


"Here lays Butch,
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger,
But slow on the draw."
In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery


"I was somebody.
Who, is no business
Of yours."
Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont


"Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go."
Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont


"Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest man.
And that is Strange."
A lawyer’s tombstone in England


"Here lies
Ezekial Aikle
Age 102
The Good
Die Young"


"Here lies
Johnny Yeast
Pardon me
For not rising"
In Ruidoso, New Mexico (I've seen this one)



"Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann"
Dec. 8, 1767


"Reader if cash thou art
In want of any
Dig 4 feet deep
And thou wilt find a Penny."
John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery


"Gone away Owin' more
Than he could pay"
Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England


"Here lies an Atheist
All dressed up And no place to go."
In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery


"The best is yet to come."
Frank Sinatra



"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough"
Alexander the Great


"Well this was fun, let's do it again sometime."
Quniaron Bellthing (1930-2004)


"That's all, folks!"
Mel Blanc (the epitaph is the trademark line of cartoon character
Porky Pig, whose voice was provided by Blanc for many years)


"Don't Try"
Charles Bukowski

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for
the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Winston Churchill


"I had a lover's quarrel with the world"
Robert Frost


"Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."
Osho


"I told you so, you damned fools."
H. G. Wells
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[annarere1960]

these were great thanks.....lol
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[daripper]

LOL!!!! some of those were pretty funny
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[drastija]

LOL
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[phil6580]

Very funny indeed.

[Anonymous]

Those were great, but this is still my favorite tombstone...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/headstone.asp

[Uinat]

This is excellent.