Famous quotes containing the words gar and/or monument:
“O fy gar ride, and fy gar rin,
And haste ye find these traitors again;
For shes be burnt and hes be slain,
The wearifu gaberlunzie man.”
—Unknown. The Gaberlunzie Man (l. 4952)
“It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is designed to perpetuate,a stone to a bone? Here lies,MHere lies;Mwhy do they not sometimes write, There rises? Is it a monument to the body only that is intended?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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