Grave Marker Quotes

When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

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

I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)

[Suggesting her epitaph:] This is too deep for me.

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

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.

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.

CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

A grave, on which to rest from singing?

He directed that the stone over his grave be inscribed: Hic jacet hujus sententiae primus auctor: DISPUTANDI PRURITUS ECCLESIARUM SCABIES.

A grave is such a quiet place.

Graved inside of it, "Italy".

Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she's at rest, and so am I.

Tombstones don't talk back.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through. When I'm dead and gone, That's what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, But I'll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through.