“ We are always doing, says he, "something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.". ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ”
- Robert G. Menzies- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. ”
- Jorge Luis Borges- Copy
- 275
“ It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
- 3.9K
“ After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ”
- George Ade- Copy
- 3.1K
“ When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
- 392
“ Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me? ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech. ”
- Robert Menzies- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time. ”
- Henry R. Luce- Copy
- 1.4K
“ When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. ”
- Ben Jonson- Copy
- 610
“ What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. ”
- John Quincy Adams- Copy
- 2.8K
“ History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking. ”
- Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky- Copy
- 85
“ Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say. ”
- Wayne Dyer- Copy
- 1K
“ Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. ”
- Kenneth Clark- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
- 356
“ I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
- 124
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