The phrases below appear on the tombstones of well-known people. Can you identity them?

-1. Every housewife’s friend
-2. Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. KM
-3. Called back ED
-4. Blese Be The Man Thatt Spares Thes Stones And Curst Be He That Moves My Bones WS
-5. On the whole I’d rather be in Philadelphia (might be just a myth)
-6. That’s all folks!
-7. Quoth the raven nevermore
-8. She hath done what she could C----- N----- (temperance)
-9. Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water
-10. Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here JJ
-11. The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o’er him planned RWE
-12. Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
-13. The best is yet to come
-14. If you seek his monument, look around C---------- W--- (architect)
-15. Look Homeward, Angel
-16. I told you I was sick

6. Mel Blanc

Great puzzle, Sue!

7. Edgar Allan Poe

12. Dean Martin

Fun puzzle Sue, merci.

1. William Henry Hoover, I suspect, or possibly James Spangler who apparently sold the idea of the vacuum cleaner to him

You know, Lex, my sister claims she knew my marriage was over when I asked my ex for a vacuum cleaner for our anniversary. And while a vacuum is a wonderful machine, it has no connection to #1.

Marian and curly, good answers!

9 - John Keats

1. Heloise

5 W. C. Fields - I hope it's not a myth. I can just imagine him saying it.

All three correct!

13. Frank Sinatra

15. Thomas Wolfe

16. Spike Milligan, although I was never sure that it was true

i don't know for sure either, flotsam.

Three more good ones!

Start this video at about 9:17 to learn more about Spike Milligan's gravestone.

10. Abraham Lincoln?

That's a very good guess, Jarkeld, but nope.

Thanks for that link Marian
Now we know!

You are welcome, flotsam.

2. Karl Marx

4. William Shakespeare

10. Jesse James

"That dirty little coward that shot Mr Howard
Has laid Jesse James in his grave"

Yes to all three!

And thanks for the interesting link, Marian.

3. Emily Dickinson

11 Given the initials I am guessing Ralph Waldo Emerson

Both correct!