An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Irvin S. Cobb
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.
Robert Emmet
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel... →
Robert Frost
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich Nietzsche