I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.