Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

- Alexis Carrel

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

- Ada Louise Huxtable

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

- Benjamin Franklin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

- Benjamin Franklin

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

- Bayard Taylor

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

- Ben Elliot

White paint is my marble.

- Cy Twombly

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

- Edmund Waller

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

- Jean de la Bruyere

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

- Louise Bogan

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

- Martin Freeman

Life is made up of marble and mud.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Marble is not alike in all countries.

- Vitruvius