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a short text in memory of a dead person — especially text written on a tombstone- John Belushi's epitaph reads, "I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on."
epitaph = text written on his tombstone
- Dorothy Parker's epitaph reads, "Excuse my dust."
- W.C. Fields epitaph reads:
Here lies W.C. Fields.
On the whole, I would rather be living in Philadelphia. - Martin Luther King's epitaph reads:
Free at Last, Free at Last
Thank God Almighty
I'm Free at Last. - I want to lead a life that permits a true and honorable epitaph.
- Trefusis objected that the epitaph was untrue, and said that he did not see why tombstones should be privileged to publish false statements.George Bernard Shaw -- An Unsocial Socialist
- I don't think you'd be interviewing me if we were any less nimble. You'd be writing our epitaph.Bill Gates
- It has been used as a prison for political offenders for two or three hundred years, and its dungeon walls are scarred with the rudely carved names of many and many a captive who fretted his life away here and left no record of himself but these sad epitaphs wrought with his own hands.Mark Twain -- The Innocents Abroad
- You done wrote his epitaph too—like the rest of the world?Lorraine Hansberry -- A Raisin in the Sun
- THE EPITAPH
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.Thomas Gray -- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - How he would figure among them in the churchyard, between services on Sundays ... reciting for their amusement all the epitaphs on the tombstones; or...Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Chose his own epitaph.Thornton Wilder -- Our Town
- Unlike Jefferson, Adams had not composed his own epitaph.David McCullough -- John Adams
- On the margin, in the secretary's neat hand, was the laconic epitaph "susp.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- These were his words over my grave, my epitaph, and I was glad that I got to hear them.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph!William Shakespeare -- Henry IV, Part 1
- Suddenly the words sounded like an epitaph.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- I used to know St. Louis, even collected epitaphs.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- This master was one day walking through the Cathedral of Lima and stopped to read the epitaph of a lady.Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
epitaph = text written on a tombstone
epitaph = text written on his tombstone
epitaph = text written on his tombstone
epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person
epitaph = text written on his tombstone
epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person
epitaphs = short texts in memory of dead people
epitaph = short text to be inscribed on a tomb in memory of the person buried there
epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person — usually written on their tombstone
epitaphs = short text inscribed on a tombstone in memory of a dead person
epitaph = a short text in memory of a dead person — typically written on their tombstone