MONUMENT

Related Subjects: Epitaphs, Fame, Grave, Memory

1. Death comes even to the monumental stones and the names inscribed thereon.—AUSONIUS, Epitaphs
   

2. Gods for themselves are monuments enough.—ALFRED AUSTIN, On the Proposal to Erect a Statue to Shakespeare in London
   

3. Let not a monument give you or me hopes,
   Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

4. Monuments are made for victories over strangers: domestic troubles should be covered with the veil of sadness.—JULIUS CAESAR
   

5. Th' dead ar-re always poplar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.—F. P. DUNNE, On Charity
   

6. Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.—THOMAS FULLER, The Holy State
   

7. In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

8. See nations slowly wise, and meanly just,
   To buried merit raise the tardy bust.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Vanity of Human Wishes
   

9. The erection of a monument is superfluous; our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.—PLINY THE YOUNGER, Epistles
   

10. Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set
    up, than why it is."—PLUTARCH
    

11. The most lasting monuments are doubtless paper-monuments.—Proverb
    

12. There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year: but, by 'r lady, he must build churches, then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

13. This grave shall have a living monument.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

14. And when old time shall lead him to his end,
    Goodness and he fill up one monument!—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
    

15. And sleep in dull cold marble.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII

16. If charnel-houses and our graves must send
    Those that we bury back, our monuments
    Shall be the maws of kites.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth