Posterity Quotes

We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

Titles do not count with posterity.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity.

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

I hate posterity - it's so fond of having the last word.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.

The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.

My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks that are locking the chains themselves.