(108 quotes found)
“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”
Jorge Luis Borges
“I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.”
Henry R. Luce
“The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity”
Benjamin Disraeli
“MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO; JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO~ TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.....”
John Prine
“A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity”
James Russell Lowell
“POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.”
Ambrose Bierce
“For the camera and for posterity, Stanley Marcus and Estee Lauder greeted each other with an embrace a pair of elderly merchant monarchs who had tested each other's titanic shrewdness for decades formally exchanging a kiss of peace.”
Kennedy Fraser
“The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.”
Alexander Smith
