Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Posterity is always just.
Titles do not count with posterity.
A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.
Time will unveil all things to posterity.
I'm interested in designing for posterity.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
I don't give a tinker's damn for posterity.
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
Forests are precious resources of the country and a wealth to be handed down to posterity.
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.