Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old monument quotes, monument sayings, and monument proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
It is certainly true that ‘actions speak louder than words,’ but words become as monuments to thoughts.Anton Szandor LaVey
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Ancient monuments are full of wisdom, for they have been filled with what they have seen and heard for hundreds of years!Mehmet Murat ildan
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Make your monuments [worthy] of the god, This keeps alive their maker’s name,..Miriam Lichtheim
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Endow your monuments according to your wealth.
Even one day gives to eternity,
An hour contributes to the future,
God recognizes him who works for him.Miriam Lichtheim
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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.Joseph Joubert
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Live a life as a monument to your soul.Ayn Rand
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Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monumentRobin Sharma
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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
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.William Hazlitt
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Monuments are for the living, not the dead.Frank Wedekind
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MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.Ambrose Bierce
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People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.Hilton Als
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At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.Viktor E. Frankl
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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.Friedrich Nietzsche
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The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.Georges Bataille
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What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.Pericles
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There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monumentRobert Musil
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Monuments, like men, submit to fate.Alexander Pope
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Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.Evangelos Venizelos
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Even as water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.Hugh B. Brown
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Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.James A. Garfield
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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
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The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.Arthur Guiterman
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The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.Madame De Stael