Asks Quote by Cato the Elder

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

— Anonymous

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

— William Hazlitt

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. ”

— Wesley Bates

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

“With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword”

— Herman Melville

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation…

— Dwight L. Moody

“I thought of Bobby, of the last look he had given me, and at that moment I understood one of the differences between man…

— Jaime Manrique

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg