Subject: Epitaphs (Page 8)

I was somebody. – Who, is no business – of yours.

Here I lie, taken from life.

These hillocks green and mouldering bones, these gloomy tombs and lettered stones. One admonition here supply: Reader! art thou prepared to die?

Here's to Johnny quite a guy. Very sad he had to die. All was well could not be better, Till he wrote my girl a letter.

The Lord saw good; I was lopping off wood, and down fell from the tree; I met with a check, and I broke my neck, and so Death lopped off me.

She was not smart, she was not fair, but hearts with grief for her are swellin'; all empty stands her little chair: she died of eatin' water-mellon.

Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; when alive he was Mudd, but now he's only dirt

Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde: Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God; As I wad do, were I Lord God, And ye were Martin Elginbrodde.

His faults are buried with him beneath this stone. His virtues (if he had any) are remembered by his friends.

On the whole I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

“Deeply regretted by all who never knew him.”

Here lies Groucho Marx and Lies and Lies and Lies

Weep not for me mother & brothers dear, It is God's wish that I am here. At my sweet age I swallowed a bone That sent me to a happy home.

I Was Supposed To Live To Be 102 and Be Shot By A Jealous Husband

Here lies, cut down like unripe fruit, The wife of Deacon Amos Shute. She died of drinking too much coffee, Anno Dominy eighteen forty

Here lies one that once was born and cried, Lived several years — and then he died

Here lies George Johnson, He was right, We was wrong, But we strung him up, And now he's gone

OK . . . I gotta go now.

Without you, Heaven would be too dull to bear
And Hell would not be Hell if you are there.

(1906 – 1992) English academic, barrister & book-collector

Here lies Clyde – Whose life was full – Until he tried – To milk a bull.

A live Dog is better than a dead Lion. Come drop a tear as you pass by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now you soon must be, prepare for death and follow me.