Best memories & monument Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.”

Lasts Belief Memories Praying Expectations Injury Contradiction Monument Our Memories Duration Last Day Advent

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”

Mind House Memories Treasure Monument

Book:The Holy State and the Profane State

Source: The Holy State and the Profane State

“Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.”

Men Needs Mind Memories Deserve Raised Monument

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“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 shalt lie, unknown. Marbles keep not themselves; how then, keep thee?”

Ifs Men Heart Lying Memories Cold Stones Mark Warm Graves Thee Monument Marble Warm Heart

Author:John Vance Cheney

“There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their memory; and any man who does, is not worthy of one.”