Posterity Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “Titles do not count with posterity.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Posterity Titles
I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you. — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Titles either come to you at the beginning or they don't come to you at all, I find, and I hate the feeling that… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden 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
You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will… — Pierre De Fermat Copy Share Image
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had. — Mira Grant 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 were our… — Samuel Adams 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 of mankind,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should… — Anonymous 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 which posterity… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image