Quotes and Sayings About Inscriptions

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
-- Benjamin Jowett

#Feelings #Taste #Inscriptions

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
-- Lew Wallace

#Inscriptions #Protest #After Death

Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
-- Robert Emmet

#Writing #Men #Inscriptions

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.
-- Zahi Hawass

#Mean #Crocodiles #Inscriptions