Quotes
Quotes about Monument
If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.
But monument themselves memorials need.
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."
Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion. [Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam.]
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument.
The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]
Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument. An hour of quiet shortly shall we see; Till then in patience our proceeding be.
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry.
He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
When I have been indulging this thought I have, in imagination, seen the Britons of some future century, walking by the banks of the Thames, then overgrown with weeds and almost impassable with rubbish. The father points to his son where stood St. Paul's, the Monument, the Bank, the Mansion House, and other places of the first distinction.
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. -Edward Young.
Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there; Temple, mountain, monument, spire; Ships rigged out with sails of fire, And blown by the evening air.
