statue, n.All

The Statue is a deeply patient thing. Marble knows how to wait for centuries to get its statue.

The Statue is erected to the memory of famous people, but they are really for the birds.

A Statue is not quite the achievent it is thought to be — it is better to have men ask why you have no statue than why you have one.

In 1506, a 1000+ year old statue was unearthed. The main figure, Laocoön, was missing an arm. The pope commissioned a contest to find who would recreate the missing arm best. Michelangelo's version lost. In 1906 the original arm was found and in nearly the exact pose Michelangelo had sculpted.

The Statue is that which is best able to tell what times we are living in.

The Statue is made for only certain types. There are no statues of farmers.

A Statue shows what great people would look like if a bird shit all over them.

The Statue is the glorification of the marble of which it is made.

The Statue is constructed on the paradox that men who deserve monuments do not need them.