Posterity Quotes

276 quotes by 192 authors

The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal… — Isaac D'Israeli
Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they. — William Cowper
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. — Anton Chekhov
Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling… — Paul Gauguin
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity. — John Jay Chapman
As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me? — Thomas Gray
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment… — Eugene Delacroix
You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do as… — Anne Hutchinson
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and… — Polybius
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and… — Julius Sterling Morton
When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of… — Brigham Young
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes. — Jeremiah
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced… — Erasmus Darwin
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. — Theodore Roosevelt
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be… — Gerald R. Ford
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every… — John Hancock
We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that… — Brigham Young

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