Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader… — Alex Nunns 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
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more… — Horace 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
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade!… — Stonewall Jackson 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
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
