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Monuments Quotes


These are some of the best 'Monuments' quotations and sayings.


Monuments are the grappling irons that bind one generation to another.

No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

The monument of the greatest man should be only a bust and a name. - If the name alone is insufficient to illustrate the bust, let them both perish.

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

Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.

Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; her monument shall last when Egypts fall.