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"God give me work, till my life shall end.
And life, till my work is done."

Winifred Holtby`s epitaph

Inscriptions etc.

Life and Death

Work and Laziness

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

Thomas a Kempis "The Imitation of Christ"

God and Religion

Pain and Tears

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The attempt to produce Heaven on Earth often produces Hell."

Karl Popper

Good and Evil

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

Galileo Galilei

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

Niels Bohr

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Charity begins at home."

English Proverbs

Family and Loneliness

Good and Evil

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

Mark Twain

Law and Crime

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand."

English Proverbs

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

Colette-Sidonie-Gabrielle

Life and Death

Time and Passing

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."

Albert Camus

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Bill Watterson

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"War is organized murder, and nothing else."

Henry John "Harry" Patch

Law and Crime

Peace and War

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"

Matt Frewer

Life and Death

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create."

Charles Baudelaire "My Heart Laid Bare"

Happiness

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Always buy good shoes, and a good bed. Because if you aren't in one, you're in the other."

Click if you know the author

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

Arthur Koestler

Courage and Fear

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

English Proverbs

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."

Lois Wyse "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother"

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known."

Richard Ford "The Sportswriter"

Marriage

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd."

Click if you know the author

God and Religion

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

Edith Wharton

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

Mel Brooks

Wit and Humor

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

Friedrich Engels

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end."

Ursula K. Le Guin

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed."

Albert Schweitzer

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

George Orwell "Shooting an Elephant"

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

T.S. Eliot

Courage and Fear

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."

Evan Esar

Woman and Man

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Authority, Government

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

Reality and Imagination

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window."

English Proverbs

Love

Richness and Money

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. "

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "Wind, Sand, and Stars"

Nature and Animals

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Minna Antrim "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

Life and Death

Pain and Tears

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

Donald Trump "Trump: Art of the Deal"

Richness and Money

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Henry Brooks Adams

Oration and Silence

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Success and Fame

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."

Piet Hein

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!"

Click if you know the author

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

Jose Ortega y Gasset "The Dehumanization of Art"

Art and Culture

Education

Human

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

Ayn Rand "Atlas Shrugged"

Question and Problem

Reality and Imagination

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

Gustave Flaubert "Pensées de Gustave Flaubert"

Health and Alcohol

Love

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Love

Pain and Tears

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see."

James A. Michener

History and Nations

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time."

Peg Bracken

Health and Alcohol

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. Life was a fever-dream made up of joys embittered by sorrows, pleasure poisoned by pain, a dream that was a nightmare-confusion of spasmodic and fleeting delights, ecstasies, exultations, happinesses, interspersed with long-drawn miseries, griefs, perils, horrors, disappointments, defeats, humiliations, and despairs - the heaviest curse devisable by divine ingenuity; but death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free."

Mark Twain "Letters From the Earth"

Life and Death

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Defeates and Mistakes

Education

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

Alexander Hamilton

Health and Alcohol

Question and Problem

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"God give me work, till my life shall end. And life, till my work is done."

"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."

"The attempt to produce Heaven on Earth often produces Hell."

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

"Charity begins at home."

"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

"A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand."

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

"Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

"War is organized murder, and nothing else."

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"

"There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create."

"Always buy good shoes, and a good bed. Because if you aren't in one, you're in the other."

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

"Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation."

"Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known."

"If you can't sleep, don't count sheep. Talk to the Shepherd."

"Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive."

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

"It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end."

"The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed."

"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

"The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

"When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window."

"The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. "

"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."

"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back."

"The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!"

"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see."

"There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time."

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson."

"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

"If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you."

"God give me work, till my life shall end.
And life, till my work is done."