David Crockett Quotes

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

I want to be remembered.

I would just like to be remembered.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

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

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.