1. epitaph - Noun
2. epitaph - Verb
An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription.
A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret orbis."
To commemorate by an epitaph.
To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me." Joseph Addison
One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism. Margrethe II of Denmark
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 with the world. Robert Frost
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper. Billy Sunday
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. Benito Mussolini
He took care to enjoy himself as long as life lasted. [N.B. A good epitaph for an alderman.]. Latin Proverb