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Epitaphs

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  1. Nature, and nature's laws, lay hid in night, God said, let ___ be! And all was light.

    From the grave of Newton, a poem from Alexander Pope

  2. Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.

    Sylvia Plath

  3. Cast a cold eye - On life, on death - Horseman, pass by!

    W. B. Yeats

  4. That's all folks!

    Mel Blanc

  5. I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

    Nikos Kazantzakis

  6. "HERE LIES ONE - WHOSE NAME WAS WRIT IN WATER" - FEB 24 1821

    John Keats

  7. Never Born, Never Died-Only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990.

    Osho Rajneesh

  8. Fly Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

    Edgar Allan Poe

  9. Workers of all lands, unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point however is to change it.

    Karl Marx

  10. Finally I am becoming stupider no more.

    Paul Erdos

  11. The Best is yet to come.

    Frank Sinatra

  12. She did it the hard way.

    Bette Davis

  13. I lie somewhere over here.

    Werner Heisenberg, as in Uncertainty Principle.

  14. Here lie the ashes of ___ ___ (1893-1967) Humorist, writer, critic, defender of human and civil rights. For her epitaph she suggested "Excuse My Dust." This memorial garden is dedicated to her noble spirit which celebrated the oneness of humankind, and to the bonds of everlasting friendship between black and Jewish people.

    Dorothy Parker

  15. ___ has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.

    By and for Jonathan Swift, translated from Latin by W. B. Yeats

  16. Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blest be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.

    William Shakespeare

  17. Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

    Benito Mussolini