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Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument? — Stephanie Roberts

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument. — Eleanor Roosevelt

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. — Roger Zelazny

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. — Joseph Straus

Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence.
-Engraved on the monument Clay built — Lorraine Heath

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ... and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. — Francis Bacon

What the masses want are monuments. — Jean Drapeau

In the end, the only monument that matters may be the work of love we carve into the lives around us. — Sue Monk Kidd

Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise. — Paul Adefarasin

The hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile; — Thomas Pynchon

Contemplated as one grand whole, astronomy is the most beautiful monument of the human mind; the noblest record of its intelligence. — Carl Sagan

Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself
the Bank of America. — Bob Hope

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith. — Louis L'Amour

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument — Robert Musil

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life. — J. Oswald Sanders

Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles and cold shaded parts the sun never touched. — Daniel Woodrell

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing. — Agesilaus II

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use. — Evangelos Venizelos

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end. — Edward Abbey

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men. — William Hazlitt

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence. — Viktor E. Frankl

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass. — Horace

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. — Marcus Porcius Cato

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand

Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day. — Knowles James Knowles

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. — Orison Swett Marden

Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument. — Robert Cormier

The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations. — Don DeLillo

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men. — Don Cheadle

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism — Walter Benjamin

If you love someone, your situation look like patience on monument smiling greaf — Abhishek Vicky

A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed. — George Jean Nathan

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman

Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small. — Shaquille O'Neal

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength. — John Milton

If you know a lonely tree, go and visit it even if it takes miles to walk there! Because lonely tree is a great monument of strength! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds. — Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

This monument is going to be built as a symbol. — Bill Russell

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments. — Rob Huebel

The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument. — Madeleine De Scudery

emotion. I was a monument to our theft. I was an iconoclast. — Mike Avitabile

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion. — Alfred Armand Montapert

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment. — Mason Cooley

North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me. — Travis Bowman

A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness. — Hunter S. Thompson

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama? ... When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods. — Alexei Nikolaevich

A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief. — Jane Austen

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength. — William Hazlitt

I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody. — Paul Valery

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. — Maya Angelou

Sometimes our experiences helps us build the monument that forms the base for what God wants us to do. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. — Tyrone Power

Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds. — Malvina Hoffman

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The tractor sat as a monument to village exploitation. — Anonymous

Make your life a monument of visions. Serving, caring, and sharing are the passions. — Debasish Mridha

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. — David Hume

A Sonnet is a
moment's
monument,
Memorial from the
Soul's eternity
To one dead
deathless hour. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery. — Haile Gerima

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. — George William Curtis

Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival

Europe is ... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure. — Margaret Thatcher

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity. — T. S. Eliot

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all. — Mervyn Peake

This is epic monument-style shit we're in. — Elizabeth Norris

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory. — Agesilaus II

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. — Ambrose Bierce

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life. — Judith Thurman

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died. — Alexander The Great

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti. — David Berlinski

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol. — Pamela Anderson

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg

Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it. — Dave Barry

Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one. — Cato The Elder

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument — Ratan Tata

If any task is yet another brick set in the construction of my own monument, it is in all likelihood a brick confiscated from someone else's monument. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. — Mark Strand

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat. — Robert Lowell

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. — Thomas Jefferson

I like a kid who holds nothing back. — Emmy Laybourne

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. — George S. Patton

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument! — Jose Mourinho

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny The Younger

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin. — Washington Irving

But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye. — Thomas Dunn English

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments. — Antonio Gaudi

Live a life as a monument to your soul. — Ayn Rand

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon. — Henry David Thoreau

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ. — Dwight L. Moody

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness. — Leon Trotsky

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead — Alexei Nikolaevich

Friday, August 04, 2006
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