Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

They should build a monument,” Cary said. “All the times I got my ass beat to a pulp so the youth of today could get dolled up like faggots to go out in public.

There’s a monument due me by rank already
I’d blow the damn thing up with dynamite
So strongly I hate every kind of dead thing
So much I adore every kind of life!