Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity. — Shunroku Hata Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“When you receive what you begged for, it only lasts for a short time. But what you build day after day will… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point. — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously,” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Men of genius are not to be analysed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art.… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none… — Charles Spalding Thomas Copy Share Image
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity. — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
