You must not miss Whitehall. At one end you will find a statue of one of our kings who was beheaded; at the other, a monument tothemanwho did it.That isjust one example of our attempts to be fair to everybody.

-Appleton, Sir Edward Victor
  Speech, Stockholm,1  Jan.

Rome de Rome est le seul monument, Et Rome Rome a vaincu seulement. Rome is the only monument left of Rome, And only Rome vanquished Rome.

-Bellay,Joachim du
  Antiquitez de Rome, no.5.

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

-Edgeworth, Maria
  Castle Rackrent,'An Hibernian Tale'.

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Rock, pt.1.

Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose'are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Religion and Literature.

   When we started the UN we were not trying to make a monument.We were building a workshopöa workshop for world peace. And we tried to make it the best damn workshop we could.

-Harrison,Wallace K(irkman)
  In Time, 22 Sep.

   The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind, his heart blackening: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey peace in old poems.

-Jeffers, (John) Robinson
  Tamar and Other Poems,'To  the Stone-Cutters'.

William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe. Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'For The Union Dead'.

   What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in pile'  d stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.

-Milton,John
  'On Shakespeare'.

A sonnet is a moment's monument,ö Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead deathless hour.

-Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
The House of Life, introduction.