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The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride,
And wonder of the world, whose spiky top
Has wounded the thick cloud.
Author: Robert Blair
Source: The Grave (l. 190)
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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.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. III)
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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.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Hydriotaphia (ch. V)
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But monument themselves memorials need.
Author: George Crabbe
Source: The Borough (letter II)
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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."
Author: Edward Everett
Source: Alaric the Visigoth
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He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
O poor Robinson Crusoe!
Author: Samuel Foote
Source: Mayor of Garratt (act I, sc. I)
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit,
and a rich monument is one embroidered.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Holy and Profane States (bk. III, Of Tombs)
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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.
[Lat., Exegi monumentum aera perennius
Regalique situ pyramidum altius,
Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens
Possit diruere aut innumerabilis
Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei
Vitabit Libitinam.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (III, 30, 1)
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Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the
life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
[Lat., Incisa notis marmora publicis,
Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis
Post mortem ducibus.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (IV, 8)
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Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
Author: Robert Lowell (2)
Source: For the Union Dead
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He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.
[Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]
Author: Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)
Source: Pharsalia (bk. VII, 831)
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Thou, in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thyself a life-long monument.
Author: John Milton
Source: Epitaph--On Shakespeare
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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.
Author: Sir Thomas More
Source: Richard III
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Towers of silence.
Author: Robert Xavier Murphy
Source: according to Sir George Birdwood, in a letter to the London "Times", Aug. 8, 1905
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Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these
pyramids.
[Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous
contemplent.]
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
Source: said to his army before the Battle of the Pyramids, July 2, 1797
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The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.
[Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Fasti (bk. IV, 709)
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies,
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 339)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at V, i)
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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.
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: Address on Laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, "Works", vol. I, p. 62
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If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass
time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to
dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them
with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their
fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time
can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
Author: Daniel Webster
Source: Speech in Faneuil Hall
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