Top 129 Tombstone Quotes & Sayings

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Write 'judge of beautiful women' on my tombstone. I'd be quite happy.

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

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

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

I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.'

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

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

I was briefly in the original version of 'Tombstone,' but I didn't make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'

That will be on my tombstone: He lived five minutes away from Flying Lotus.

How meagre one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. And the last, most complete reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates.

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."

A good character is the best tombstone.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

On my tombstone it will say, 'At last, a day off.'

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

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

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

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

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

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

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."

When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least he tried' engraved on my tombstone.

Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

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.

Somebody said something funny to me the other day. They said, 'Wolper, until two weeks ago, your tombstone was going to say, 'David Wolper, the man who produced 'Roots.' I think the tombstone now has a new inscription. It's going to be 'David Wolper, the man who produced the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics.'

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

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

My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

I want my tombstone to say that I won the Champions League with Barca.

On my left forearm, I've got a gothic cross with a tombstone in the center with the initials 'E' and 'G' for my friend, the late Eddie Guerrero.

If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

When my mother passed away, we knew what she wanted on her tombstone, so I asked my father, so there wouldn't be any argument among us children, 'Daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?' He thought about that. He said, 'preacher.' So that's what's going to be on his tombstone. Preacher.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.

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

If you're going to sit on someone's tombstone, you might as well know something about them, right?