Monuments Quotes

Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.

~ William Shakespeare

Knowledge can never imprison you, but you can be captive to your ignorance.

~ A.e. Samaan

God calls big trees out of small seeds, so He prepares great monuments out of small minds. He will definitely call those wonderful things he put in you out of you. When He begins, do not resist!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is certainly true that ‘actions speak louder than words,’ but words become as monuments to thoughts.

~ Anton Szandor Lavey

A positive mind is the sharpest tool that brings down the monuments of failure. The quickest way to fail is to murder your mind with negative thoughts!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till the judgment that yourself arise, You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

~ William Shakespeare

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

~ Jean-André De Luc

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

~ K. Martin Beckner

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

~ Kin Hubbard

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death so are statues and inscriptions so is history.

~ Lew Wallace

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

~ P. J. O'rourke

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

~ Zygmunt Bauman