If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

The regulations require the inscription of each individual ( male or female, adult or child ) on a separate card ( fiche ).

Each adult is held personally responsible for assuring his inscription and obtaining an identification card which must be shown on demand.

The oldest text in Phoenician script is an inscription on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram.

A runic inscription on a fibula found at Bad Ems reflects Christian pious sentiment ( and is also explicitly marked with a Christian cross ), reading god fura dih deofile ᛭ (" God for / before you, Theophilus!

* 1864 – The U. S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

The inscription on Aeschylus's gravestone makes no mention of his theatrical renown, commemorating only his military achievements:

In Athens, Paul visits an altar with an inscription dedicated to an unknown god, so when he gives his speech on the Areopagos, he proclaims to worship that same unknown god whom he identifies as the Christian God.

Pope Martin V protested in vain against the inscription on the sarcophagus: " John the former pope ".

Herm of Hermes, Roman copy of a late 5th century BC original, the forefront inscription states the herm was made by Alcamenes and placed infront of the gates of Pergamon, Istanbul Archaeology Museums | Istanbul Museums.

Charles Baudelaire, a noted French writer who translated Poe's works into French and who was largely inspired by him, said that the building on the site of the Old Jacobin Club had no gates and, therefore, no inscription.

A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.

Something of its 17th-century origins can be seen today in an inscription at the entrance gate to Bunhill Fields: This church-yard was inclosed with a brick wall at the sole charges of the City of London, in the mayoralty of Sir John Lawrence, Knt., Anno Domini 1665 ; and afterwards the gates thereof were built and finished in the mayoralty of Sir Thomas Bloudworth, Knt., Anno Domini, 1666.

Within the arch, each side has an iron gate hinged on either side of the border with an inscription above reading " May these gates never be closed ".

In 1815 Briançon successfully withstood a siege of three months at the hands of the Allies, a feat which is commemorated by an inscription on one of its gates, Le passé répond de l ' avenir.

In his jurisdictions, Fouché ordered all crosses and statues removed from graveyards, and he gave the cult one of its elemental tenets when he decreed that all cemetery gates must bear only one inscription – " Death is an eternal sleep.

The Greek inscription reads ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΧΑΝΔΡΟΥ ( king Alexander ).

The Gaulish inscription from Montagnac reads αλλετυος καρνονου αλσοεας ( alleteiuos karnonou alisonteas ), with the last word possibly a place name based on alisia, " service-tree " or " rock " ( compare Alesia, Gaulish Alisiia ).

The inscription reads Wie vrijheid wil, moet de ander vrijheid bieden ( He who wants freedom, must give it to others ).

Yale president Arthur Twining Hadley penned the inscription, which reads: " On Pemberton Hill, 255 Feet North of This Spot, Was Born on April Fifth 1649 Elihu Yale, Governor of Madras, Whose Permanent Memorial in His Native Land is the College That Bears His Name.

The inscription in Etruscan letters reads eluveitie, which has been interpreted as the Etruscan form of the Celtic ( h ) elu ̯ eti ̯ os (“ the Helvetian ”), presumably referring to a man of Helvetian descent living in Mantua.

" The Hebrew inscription, which is set on three lines, reads as follows: " l ' hz * y / hwtm * mlk */ yhdh ", which translates as " belonging to Ahaz ( son of ) Yehotam, King of Judah.

The inscription reads " Workers of the world, unite!

His headstone inscription reads: " Kit Carson / Died May 23, 1868 / Aged 59 Years.

– The Latin inscription reads LVDOVICVS ( i. e. " Louis ") DEI GRACIA ( i. e. " by the Grace of God ", where Latin gratia was spelt gracia ) FRANCOR REX ( i. e. " Style of the French Sovereign # Francorum Rex | King of the Franks ", where Francor.

The inscription reads in Russian and Georgian: " To the Militia of Our Faithful Imeretian People for Exceptional Courage Displayed against the Mountaineers in 1838.

The inscription on Gerbert's tomb reads in part Iste locus Silvestris membra sepulti venturo Domino conferet ad sonitum (" This place, at the advent of the Lord, will yield to the sound the last trumpet the buried members of Sylvester II ", mis-read as " will make a sound ") has given rise to the curious legend that his bones will rattle in that tomb just before the death of a Pope.

In part the inscription reads: " The spire symbolises the rise to world recognition of a boy who was born in Jeparit and who rose by his own efforts to become Australia's Prime Minister and a statesman recognised and honoured throughout the world.

The tomb of Shah Jahan bears a calligraphic inscription that reads ; " He traveled from this world to the banquet-hall of Eternity on the night of the twenty-sixth of the month of Rajab, in the year 1076 Hijri.

The inscription on the painting reads " playfully painted the imperial brush " in 1427.

An inscription reads: " Here a Nation was born ".

An inscription seemingly carved into the wall above the skeleton reads: " IO FUI GIA QUEL CHE VOI SIETE E QUEL CH ' IO SONO VOI ANCO SARETE " ( I once was what now you are and what I am, you shall yet be ).

The inscription on the base, written by Viollet-le-Duc, reads ( in French ):

The inscription on the Rufus Stone reads:

The cuneiform inscription found at Erebuni Fortress reads:

The Greek inscription reads ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ( Antiochus, image of God, bearer of victory ).

The inscription at its base reads:

The inscription reads:

She rises, takes down her father ’ s knife, kisses the blade, and reads the inscription.

Butterfly reads the inscription on her father ’ s knife: " Who cannot live with honor must die with honor.