Cato The Elder Quote by Greg Ross

After I am dead, I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

— Cato the Elder

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

— Anonymous

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

— Frank Wedekind

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

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

“If I have done anything noble, that is a sufficient memorial; if I have not, all the statues in the world will not preserve…

— Anonymous

“If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the…

— William Shakespeare

Mama, don't forget to put a little monument on my tomb when I'm dead.

— Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia

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 a monument due me by rank already I’d blow the damn thing up with dynamite So strongly I hate every kind of dead…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.

— Varg Vikernes

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt