Deserve Quote by William Hazlitt

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

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

— Reinhard Bonnke

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

— Anonymous

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

— Roger Zelazny

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Monuments obtain their full worth through their complete use.

— Evangelos Venizelos

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

— Agesilaus II