John Requa Quotes

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

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

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

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

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

I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this: "He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.

When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

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

[Suggesting an epitaph for herself:] This is on me.

I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.