Inscriptions

Epitaphs

Died in 1989, aged 81; buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery; inscription on his gravestone includes the words "That's All Folks ... Man of 1000 Voices"		Mel Blanc
"Skegness is so bracing": epitaph (on grave in Jersey) to		Sir Billy Butlin
"Workers of all lands unite": on the tomb of		Karl Marx
Had an inscription in Irish Gaelic on his tombstone in Sussex, translating into English as "I told you I was ill" (died in 2002, aged 83)		Spike Milligan
"Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman": epitaph to		Capt. Lawrence 'Titus' Oates
"Good frend for Iesvs sake forbeare, / To digg the dvst encloased heare. / Bleste be ye man [that] spares thes stones, / And cvrst be he [that] moves my bones.": found on the grave of		William Shakespeare
Died in 1998; wording on gravestone mysteriously changed in 2021, from "The Best is Yet to Come / Beloved Husband and Father" to "Sleep Warm Poppa"		Frank Sinatra
'Born January 27 1850 / Died April 15 1912 / Bequeathing to his countrymen the memory and example of a great heart / a brave life and a heroic death / "Be British"': on a memorial to		Edward J. Smith (Captain of the Titanic)
"Home is the sailor, home from the sea / And the hunter home from the hill" (the last two lines of his poem Requiem, which he wrote as his own epitaph)		Robert Louis Stevenson
"Reunitey in the heavenly–bode – Deep Joy!" (at Long Buckby, near his home town of Daventry, Northants – buried alongside his wife Frances, who predeceased him by 8 years)		'Professor' Stanley Unwin
"Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" (Reader, if you seek [his] monument, look around [you]): epitaph (in his most famous work) to		Sir Christopher Wren
"Cast a cold eye / On life, on death / Horseman, pass by!" (the closing lines of his poem Under Ben Bulben – written a few months before his death)		W. B. Yeats

People (other)

"Courage calls to courage everywhere" (extract from a speech given in 1913 by this "moderate suffragist"): on a statue unveiled in Parliament Square in 2018 to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which gave votes to women for the first time in the UK

Dame Millicent Fawcett

Coins and Medals

Coins

Decus et tutamen (ornament and protection)		Edge of a £1 coin (English)
Pleidiol wyf I'm Gwlad (freedom always in my homeland)		Edge of a £1 coin (Welsh)
Standing on the shoulders of giants		Edge of a £2 coin

Medals

"Let not the deep swallow me up" appears on the medals of the

Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)

Places

"Arbeit macht frei" (work makes free): on the gates of		Auschwitz, Dachau (concentration camps)
"Out of the strong came forth sweetness"		Lyle's Golden Syrup (tin)
"Defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer": above the entrance to		The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales (Old Bailey)
"We came in peace for all mankind": on a plaque that was left		On the Moon
"Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice" (Reader, if you seek [his] monument, look around [you] – an epitaph to the architect		St. Paul's Cathedral
Colossus: "Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"		Statue of Liberty
"Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by / That here, obedient to their laws, we lie": on a burial mound on the site of the Battle of		Thermopylae
"They buried him among the kings because he had done good toward God and toward his house"		Tomb of the Unknown Warrior (Westminster Abbey)
"Remember Winston Churchill": on a slab of marble on the floor of		Westminster Abbey
"If you can meet with trimph and disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same" (lines from Kipling's If): in the tunnel, at the players' entrance to (world–famous sporting venue)		Wimbledon (Centre Court)

In Fiction

Sign around Paddington Bear's neck, when he was found by the Browns at Paddington Station

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