Brass Quote by Horace

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

— Horace

Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those…

— Joshua Chamberlain

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

— Varg Vikernes

“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

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

— John Donne

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I…

— Alexander Pope

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And…

— Paul Eldridge

The bells cease, and the power goes from me, and I descend again to the world of the living; and if in some foolish…

— Henry Williamson

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful,…

— Joseph Addison

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

— Henry Waxman