Monuments Quotes

“Towers of silence.”

“Jove, thou regent of the skies.”

“Factum abiit; monumenta manent.”

“But monuments themselves memorials need.”

“Cœlo tegitur qui non hatet urnam.”

“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”

“Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siècles vous contemplent.”

“Monument”

“Thou, in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thyself a life-long monument.”

“The righteous require no monuments; their lives and their teachings are their monuments.”

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“Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.”

“Incisa notis marmora publicis,
Per quæ spiritus et vita redit bonis
Post mortem ducibus.”

“He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
O poor Robinson Crusoe!”

“The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride,
And wonder of the world, whose spiky top
Has wounded the thick cloud.”

“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.”

“Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.”

“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, wore a contradiction to our belief.”

“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."”