Tuesday
Nov062007
16 Tombstones that make you go hhmmmm.... [Pictures]
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 8:45PM
Here's a link to 16 of the funniest (and saddest) tombstones I have ever seen.
Click here to see all 16 of them.
I need to find something interesting to put on mine (and write it into my will!)
Any suggestions?
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Mark Twain's epitaph: "There was things that he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
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Famous People's Epitaphs
# "My Jesus, mercy" Al Capone
# "The best is yet to come."
Frank Sinatra
# "This is the last of Earth! I am content!"
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
# "A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough"
Alexander the Great
# "Well this was fun, let's dit again sometime."
Quniaron Bellthing (1930-2004)
# "Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King. He Died As He Lived. William H. Bonney 'Billy the Kid'"
Billy the Kid (unknown)
# "That's all, folks!"
Mel Blanc (the epithaph is the trademark line of cartoon character Porky Pig, whose voice was provided by Blanc for many years)
# "Don't Try"
Charles Bukowski
# "Here lies a man whknew how tenlist the service of better men than himself."
Andrew Carnegie
# "I am ready tmeet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Winston Churchill
# "She did it the hard way"
Bette Davis
# "Nothing's So Sacred As Honor And Nothing's So Loyal As Love"
Wyatt Earp
# "I had a lover's quarrel with the world"
Robert Frost
# "Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
W. B. Yeats
# "Call Me Trimtab" (A trimtab is the smallest part of a rudder for a ship or airplane, and controlls the direction of the craft. He was probably alluding how much power one individual can have in the world.)
R. Buckminster Fuller
# "Hey Ram" (Translated "Oh, God")
Mahatma Gandhi
# "Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
# "Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx
# "Truth to your own spirit"
Jim Morrison
# "Norton I Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico"
Joshua A. Norton
# "Never born, Never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."
Osho
# "Curiosity did not kill this cat."
Studs Terkel
# "I told you so, you damned fools."
H. G. Wells
# "Against you I will fling myself unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"
Virginia Woolf