It is a good quote to at least strive to live by though. Wallowing in misery over the state of this world doesn’t really help anybody, and yes I am speaking fron experience.
False attribution, just like nearly every other quote on the web. See https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark-twain-say-its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled/ for details.
Currently waiting for my stone to be delivered. It will have a picture I took about 1980 of my BMW motorcycle in the mountains of Colorado with the first line of Bilbo’s traveling song:
The road goes ever on and on …
I want people to remember who I was, not the sad wreck I am now.
Strange beautiful grass of green,With your majestic silver seasYour mysterious mountains I wish to see closerMay I land my kinky machine?Although your world wonders me,With your majestic superior cackling henYour people I do not understand,So to you I shall put an endAnd you’ll never hear surf music again.
I’m hoping my body will good enough to transplant and dissect. The remains can be cremated, and my name added with my dates to some other stone, probably my mothers’s. No statement. No text. My life should be enough.
Haven’t decided on one yet. Possibly Maybe next time or Sure is hot here. Thought about the death date like 2075 which would mean I made 120. It will be a while before the joke works.
Close but no epitaph. Twain didn’t say it in those exact word – close though: “How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!” – Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)
We already had a family plot. Our first son was buried there. [He only lived a few days.] We will be cremated and the ashes will be placed in that plot along with him. My coffin is to be bamboo, like bamboo flooring, maybe 1.5 or 2 litres.
After medical science is done with my donated remains, my remaining remains will be cremated and scattered into the sea at the end of Dungeness Spit, WA., USA.
Bilan over 1 year ago
He wants people to dance on his grave and sing in rejoice?
Erse IS better over 1 year ago
Lots of folks prefer a great story to an autobiography.
in.amongst over 1 year ago
Not sure about the “heaven-on-earth” part, but earth sure is an haven for all sorts.
eastern.woods.metal over 1 year ago
I wright a new memoir every week
My grocery list
JosephShriver over 1 year ago
Sanspareil over 1 year ago
Mine will read I met an angel and married her!!
I really did have heaven on earth!
Scorpio Premium Member over 1 year ago
Easier to fool than convince the fooled that they have been – that explains Twitter and Facebook completely. The social media will be the death of us.
Jeff0811 over 1 year ago
Mine…, “That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.”
zzeek over 1 year ago
“Could you please move to the left or the right a little bit? You are standing on my face.”
Vet Premium Member over 1 year ago
“I enjoyed the ride.”
Enter.Name.Here over 1 year ago
Sounds like Ghandi:
“LIVE as if you were to die tomorrow. LEARN as if you were to live forever.”
keenanthelibrarian over 1 year ago
Absolutely speechless, until I open the next bottle of Shiraz.
Baba27 over 1 year ago
From a German gravestone: “Hier liegen meine Gebeine. Ich wollt es wären deine.” (Here lie my bones. I wish they were yours.)
sandpiper over 1 year ago
‘Now where did I put my glasses?’
dot-the-I over 1 year ago
Phil’s flip side, known by best friend Bernie:
It’s laughter and it’s loving I disdain.
Don’t talk of love.
Well I’ve heard the word before.
It’s sleeping in my memory,
I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
Zeno2099 over 1 year ago
It is a good quote to at least strive to live by though. Wallowing in misery over the state of this world doesn’t really help anybody, and yes I am speaking fron experience.
fairportfan over 1 year ago
Hmmm. Twain predicted Trump supporters?
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
“A person doesn’t HAVE a soul. A person IS a soul — temporarily having had a body.”
stringer831 over 1 year ago
I’m a guide at a historic cemetery. My favorite epitaph is “See you later”.
abba3 over 1 year ago
Mine will simply read, “Since you wouldn’t visit me while I was sick and dealing with lung issues, kindly Eff Off and get lost.”
Finbar Gurdy over 1 year ago
Bernie and Phil… Very New England….
bittenbyknittin over 1 year ago
Mine will be, “I told you I was sick.”
mommavamp over 1 year ago
Mine should be “God knows I tried.” My daughter suggested it, and she really knows me!
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
Count Me Out
mindjob over 1 year ago
If you’re going to write something, make it funny. Nobody who walks through a cemetery wants to be lectured
cmerb over 1 year ago
" As you are I was once , as I am you shall be " Please pray for me : )
dflak over 1 year ago
“What’s a guy got to do to get a cup of coffee around here?”
Masterskrain Premium Member over 1 year ago
Twain sure has the current crop of Heffalump supporters pegged…
Best Epitaph: “On the Whole, I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia!” W.C.Fields.
Lenavid over 1 year ago
Hence Leftist supporters.
happyinvenice23 over 1 year ago
Great Job Wiley, good day too you.
Frank_Lecanto over 1 year ago
I’l be cremated and have my urn engraved “Kiss My Ash”.
rmbdot over 1 year ago
I always liked that song.
rugeirn over 1 year ago
False attribution, just like nearly every other quote on the web. See https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-mark-twain-say-its-easier-to-fool-people-than-to-convince-them-that-they-have-been-fooled/ for details.
Kveldulf over 1 year ago
Currently waiting for my stone to be delivered. It will have a picture I took about 1980 of my BMW motorcycle in the mountains of Colorado with the first line of Bilbo’s traveling song:
The road goes ever on and on …
I want people to remember who I was, not the sad wreck I am now.
wolfgang73 over 1 year ago
Strange beautiful grass of green,With your majestic silver seasYour mysterious mountains I wish to see closerMay I land my kinky machine?Although your world wonders me,With your majestic superior cackling henYour people I do not understand,So to you I shall put an endAnd you’ll never hear surf music again.
paranormal over 1 year ago
That’s going to take a good size head stone plus will cost a fortune…
phileaux over 1 year ago
Truth Mark Twain
Stormy Panda over 1 year ago
I got mine ready
Here lies the bones of Redd Pandee
Died at the age of 103
For 15 years he kept his virginity
Quite a record for this vicinity
I know, JAWS, however it was an actual headstone. Believe it or not.
nospamplease1 over 1 year ago
Most likely not a twain quote. Sam’s work is well documented and this is not on any authoritative site. Sorry, Twain fan here :-)
SofaKing over 1 year ago
“What are you looking at?” would be on my tombstone, if I was going to have one. But I’m not, waste of money.
KALKAY32 over 1 year ago
Here’s mine: “last night I dreamed a fearsome dream, beyond the Isle of Skye, I saw a dead man win a fight and I think that man was I.”
James Gifford Premium Member over 1 year ago
I miss Guy Clark…
Calvins Brother over 1 year ago
“I’d rather be fishing.”
preacherman over 1 year ago
I’m hoping my body will good enough to transplant and dissect. The remains can be cremated, and my name added with my dates to some other stone, probably my mothers’s. No statement. No text. My life should be enough.
Detroit Dan over 1 year ago
How bout ‘eat like no one’s watching’?
mrwalker008 over 1 year ago
I pity the fool!
rlaker22j over 1 year ago
the VA will not pay for your creation they will only pay for your internment
The Brooklyn Accent over 1 year ago
If I were to be buried rather than cremated, I think I’d like
“Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul:
I want to get lost in your rocknroll
And drift away."
ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. A fool and his stupidity are soon interred.
SrTechWriter over 1 year ago
Mine will read: “It’s PERFECTLY good!”
My wife and kids have heard me say that all through our lives together. My wife says her epitaph on the same stone will read: “Yes!”
I did really like the one @christelisbetty described in her response to @timbob2313 near the beginning of this thread, though.
leemorse9777 over 1 year ago
Haven’t decided on one yet. Possibly Maybe next time or Sure is hot here. Thought about the death date like 2075 which would mean I made 120. It will be a while before the joke works.
Xyzzy - nothing happens Premium Member over 1 year ago
Close but no epitaph. Twain didn’t say it in those exact word – close though: “How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!” – Autobiographical dictation, 2 December 1906. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 (University of California Press, 2013)
tee929 over 1 year ago
Robert Craigs over 1 year ago
We already had a family plot. Our first son was buried there. [He only lived a few days.] We will be cremated and the ashes will be placed in that plot along with him. My coffin is to be bamboo, like bamboo flooring, maybe 1.5 or 2 litres.
comicsboi Premium Member over 1 year ago
“See you on the next time around.”
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
Translate Twain to the more modern “Nobody hates being called a sucker more than a sucker”.
LeslieAnn Premium Member over 1 year ago
After medical science is done with my donated remains, my remaining remains will be cremated and scattered into the sea at the end of Dungeness Spit, WA., USA.