“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary”
Thomas Paine
“We planned to give away Mike's poster about two weeks ago, and it's amazing how it worked out. We're all proud of Mike.”
Dan Chapman
“Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?”
Groucho Marx
“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
“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”
Isaac Disraeli
“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”
James Joyce
