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10 Famous Epitaphs

An epitaph is a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.





Whose epitaph was...



  1. The best is yet to come.
  2. I told you I was ill.
  3. Murdered by a traitor and coward whose name is not worthy to appear here.
  4. That's all, folks.






  5. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
  6. And alien tears will fill for him, Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
  7. If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
  8. Everybody loves somebody sometime.
  9. Here lies one whose name is writ in water.
  10. She did it the hard way


Answers:



  1. Frank Sinatra
  2. Spike Milligan
  3. Jesse James
  4. Mel Blanc
  5. Winston Churchill
  6. Oscar Wilde
  7. Rupert Brooke (poet)
  8. Dean Martin






  9. John Keats
  10. Bette Davis















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