The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole… — Joseph Addison 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
“ 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
If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one… — Abraham Lincoln 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
And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today? — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done… — John Trumbull Copy Share Image
But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is something eternal in the very nature of writing, as is so graphically illustrated by the scriptures themselves. In a very… — John H. Groberg 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
Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane… — Giuseppe Garibaldi 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
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Let us strive the more earnestly therefore to lengthen out our span of life-- life that is poured out like water and… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
