After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
“Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winners don’t care about adorned victories.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body. He has… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 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
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their… — Jefferson Davis 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
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
