Posterity Quotes · Page 4

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

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

— Tacitus

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

— Anonymous

Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.

— Kim Jong-un

Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.

— Louis Pasteur

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

— Seneca the Younger

“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

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of…

— Abraham Lincoln

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those…

— Rene Descartes

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of…

— Anonymous

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

— Jorge Luis Borges

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

— Ben Jonson

Usually what goes through my mind before I hit the tweet button is, did I misspell or mis-grammatize anything, but also, is…

— Don Willett

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

[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.…

— George Washington

Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place…

— Robert E. Lee

What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The…

— Oliver Goldsmith

When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.…

— Don DeLillo

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

“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none…

— Charles Spalding Thomas

That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a…

— Ben Jonson

The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in…

— David Brewster

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

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,…

— Anton Chekhov

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau

“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”

— George Ade

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

— Joseph Addison

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

— Walter Savage Landor

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

— Walter Cronkite

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

— Jules Renard

“Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”

— Michael P. Naughton

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe