(108 quotes found)
“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”
Alice James
“And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.”
Pierre de Fermat
“The function of posterity is to look after itself”
Dylan Thomas
“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us”
Abraham Lincoln
“Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.”
Alexander Crummell
“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it. . .”
“Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.”
E. Joseph Cossman
“This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]”
Voltaire
“The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England”
W. R. Inge
“Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
Benjamin Franklin
