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Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich. -- Ambrose Bierce
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. -- Richard Corliss
Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters. -- Mason Cooley
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. -- John Simon
All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost. -- Ayn Rand
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women. -- V. S. Pritchett
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness. -- Leon Trotsky
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality. -- Elsa Maxwell
I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique. -- May Kendall
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water. -- Brendan Gill
The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two in the morning back there?" "It's called jet lag," Ian informed him. "I'm still on London time. I don't suppose you savages have any tea in this mausoleum." "There's a diet Snapple in the fridge." Ian shuddered. "I thought not. -- Gordon Korman
I must brave the interior of the most tawdry and literally trumpery tower of them all ... the Trump Taj Mahal. For taking the name of the priceless mausoleum of Agra, one of the beauties and wonders of the world, for that alone Donald Trump should be stripped naked and whipped with scorpions along the boardwalk.- It is as if a giant toad has raped a butterfly. -- Stephen Fry
His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. -- Kingsley Amis

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