A Quote by Studs Terkel

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

Studs Terkel

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Studs Terkel
American - Journalist
May 16, 1912 - October 31, 2008

I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.

Studs Terkel

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

Studs Terkel

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.

James Fenton

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

Robert Emmet

If I were to write my epitaph... Epitaph? Hey, shut-up Albert. I'd want to be remembered as someone who loved his sport and tried his best.

Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.

Robert Emmet

Wouldn’t that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.

Jeaniene Frost

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.

Harry S. Truman

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

Margrethe II of Denmark

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

Laird Barron

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

Brittany Murphy

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Robert Emmet

If I were to have an epitaph, I'd want it to read, 'She did stuff.'

Ory Okolloh

"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice.

Robert Emmet

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.