Headstone Sayings

These Headstone Sayings for memorials, epitaphs and graveside verses are for help in finding the right things to say. On the other hand there are those with a sense of humor who obviously want everyone to smile - and with some of them you just can't help it. They are free for you to use for non commercial purpose.










Headstone Sayings

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Last word sayings!

"I am just going outside and may be some time."
(Before vanishing into the blizzard on the ill
fated Antarctic expedition.)
Lawrence Oates

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"Why yes, a bullet-proof vest!"
(Last request before the firing squad.)
james W Rodgers

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I told you I was ill
Spike Milligan

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Lost for now but loved forever

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Fought the good fight, finished the race, kept the faith

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Come blooming youths, as you pass by,
And on these lines do cast an eye.
As you are now, so once was I;
As I am now, so must you be;
Prepare for death and follow me.

Which is not funny at all.
But underneath, someone had added:
How do I know Which way you went.

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Pardon Me For Not Getting Up - I Feel Like Lying Down

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On a hanged man Rab McBeth
Who died for the want of another breath.
1791-1823

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Jedediah Goodwin
Auctioneer
Born 1828
Going!
Going!!
Gone!!!
1876

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I want to die like my father, peacefully in his sleep,
not screaming and terrified, like his passengers.
Bob Monkhouse

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Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they
told you how the person died.

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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

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We are born naked, wet and hungry, and get slapped
on our arse. Then things just keep getting worse.

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My father only hit me once - but he used a Volvo.

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I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Cemeteries" routing option.

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She always said her feet were killing her but
nobody believed her.
Margaret Daniels

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Too old to die young!
Billy Connolly

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Time Waits For No One But I Wouldn't Have
Minded A Bit Of A Delay

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In The Beginning I Was Small, Now I Am Nothing At All

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Mr Pricke (dates unknown)
Upon the fifth day of November
Christ's College lost a privy member;
Cupid and death did both their arrows nick,
Cupid shot short, but death did hit the prick;
Women lament and maidens make great moans,
Because the prick is laid beneath the stones.

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