Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us — Abraham Lincoln 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
“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.” — George Ade 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
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Ignatius Donnelly Copy Share Image
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share Image
The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . .… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“What is the source of this premature anxiety to establish fundamental laws? It is the old conceit of being wiser than all… — Jeremy Bentham 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
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Often they descended to their grave with an ironic smile – for what was there left of them to bury! Only the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day,… — William M. Evarts 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
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no… — Michael S. Heiser 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
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
