Deserve Quote by William Hazlitt

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

— William Hazlitt

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

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

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

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

— Claes Oldenburg

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Roger Zelazny

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

— Reinhard Bonnke

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

— Viktor E. Frankl

If so men's memories not a monument be, None shalt thou have. Warm hearts, and not cold stone, Must mark thy grave, or thou…

— John Vance Cheney