Posterity Quotes · Page 3

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

— Elmore Leonard

“Right or wrong, do it right for posterity to thrive on your dexterity.”

— Jonathan Tetteh-Cole

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

— Herman Melville

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

— Art Linkletter

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.

— Horace

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

— Groucho Marx

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

— Jean Paul

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

— Barack Obama

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

— Samuel Adams

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least…

— E. Joseph Cossman

“Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are really dead. I mean,…

— Edward Abbey

“When you receive what you begged for, it only lasts for a short time. But what you build day after day will…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

— Robert Aris Willmott

“David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously,”

— David Foster Wallace

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we…

— Horace Walpole

Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of…

— Spencer W. Kimball

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation,…

— Adam Smith

“We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may…

— Mark Twain

Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse…

— Washington Irving

Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more…

— Robert Menzies

“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the…

— Marcel Duchamp

“What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's King Cheops erected the first pyramid And largest, thinking it was just the thing…

— Lord Byron

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set…

— Abraham Lincoln

We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be…

— Brigham Young

The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and…

— Virginia Woolf

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals…

— Stephen A. Douglas

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very…

— Lord Byron

The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.…

— Marcel Duchamp

“Not for an instant did he flinch from the mere fact of dying to-day…To die ‘untimely,’ as men called it, was the…

— Max Beerbohm

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

— Denis Diderot

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

— Madame de Stael

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else

— Heywood C Broun

We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.

— Shunroku Hata

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

— Patrick Henry

Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.

— Ron Chernow

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

— Benjamin Disraeli

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

— Thomas Gray