These are fun too:
Sir John Strange; Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange.
-- Tombstone in England
I was somebody. Who, is no business Of yours.
-- Vermont
As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, So this old world is made brighter by the lives Of folks like you.
-- Bonnie Parker (Bonnie and Clyde)
Here lies Lester Moore; Four slugs from a .44; No Les No More.
-- Tombstone Arizona
John Brown is filling his last cavity.
-- Dentist's Tombstone
I told you that I was sick!
-- Georgia Cemetery, USA
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake; Stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
-- Pennsylvania Tombstone, USA
Remember man, as you walk by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so shall you be, Remember this and follow me.
-- Tombstone in England
To follow you I'll not consent, Until I know which way you went.
-- Written on the tombstone in reply to one above
The children of Israel wanted bread, And the Lord sent them manna, Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna.
-- England Tombstone
Under the sod and under the trees, Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. He is not here, there's only the pod; Pease shelled out and went to God.
-- Massachusetts Tombstone
Gone away, Owin' more than he could pay.
-- England
Alien tears will fill for him; Pity's long-broken ern. For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
-- Oscar Wilde's Tombstone |
