| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. |
| Alexander Pope | Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. |
| Daniel Webster | Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit. |
| Edward Everett | 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." |
| George Crabbe | But monument themselves memorials need. |
| Ovidius Naso | The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. |
| Robert Blair | The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. |
| Robert Lowell | Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. |
| Robert Xavier Murphy | Towers of silence. |
| Samuel Foote | He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe! |
| Sir Thomas Browne | 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. |
| Sir Thomas Browne | 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. |
| Sir Thomas More | For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste. |
| Horatius Flaccus | 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. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. |
| John Milton | Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument. |
| Thomas Fuller | Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. |
| William Shakespeare | 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. |
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