Posterity Quotes

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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
View quotes by John Quincy Adams

The function of posterity is to look after itself.
View quotes by Dylan Thomas

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander
View quotes by Walter Landor

Posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything. [Fermat's last theorem]
View quotes by Pierre De Fermat

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
View quotes by Thomas Paine

Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
View quotes by Alexander Crummell

After being turned down by numerous publishers, he had decided to write for posterity (Fables in Slang)
View quotes by George Ade

Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveller, and piss.
View quotes by Lord Byron

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
View quotes by Ben Jonson

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 favourite.
View quotes by Isaac Disraeli

Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
View quotes by Robert Andrews

And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style
View quotes by Isaac Disraeli

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
View quotes by Joseph Addison

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

View quotes by Jean Paul Richter

Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity
View quotes by Edward Everett



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