Monuments

(226 votes)   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
BC 444-360, King of Sparta from 399-360 BC

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(209 votes)   Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(127 votes)   Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

John L. Motley
1814-1877, American Historian

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(114 votes)   America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.

Simon Hoggart

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(107 votes)   If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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