I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
“Right or wrong, do it right for posterity to thrive on your dexterity.” — Jonathan Tetteh-Cole Copy Share Image
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you! — Albert Einstein 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
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we… — Julius Sterling Morton 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
The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“In his first Italian campaign he wrote thus to General Clarke: "That ambition and the occupation of high offices were not sufficient… — Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further,… — Dallin H. Oaks 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
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
