Posterity Quotes

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

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 has taken full effect on this state favorite.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

Time will unveil all things to posterity.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

Posterity is always just.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?