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Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
Cyril Connolly
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Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.
Paul Washer
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After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
William Shakespeare
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Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
T. S. Eliot
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[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.
Hedy Lamarr
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My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.
Studs Terkel
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If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Mark Twain
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What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.
Joseph Addison
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Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.
Edward Abbey
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
George Bernard Shaw
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What a measly epitaph that would make: 'They saw it coming, but hadn't the wit to stop it happening.'
Sara Parkin
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[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.
Dorothy Parker
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[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.
Gloria Allred
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'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.
Studs Terkel
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People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'
Mario Cuomo
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I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
Hannah Whitall Smith