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Posterity Quotes

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Pierre de Fermat

Me Know Will Everything Posterity

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Look Posterity Function After Itself

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Surprises Going Posterity Store Lot

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Planning Remember Virtue Posterity

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

Charlotte Smith

Posterity Bind Conquest Does Neither

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth Lie Out Cheat False Posterity

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Julius Sterling Morton

Generation Earth Exhausted Posterity

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

Appreciate Person Will Posterity

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

Live Long Lived Us Posterity Some

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

Believe You Seen Something Posterity

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Me Care Done Why Posterity Should

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Alexander Smith

Tree Man Plants Plant Posterity He

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Man Half Posterity Gives

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Constitution Generation Posterity

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Alexander McQueen

Posterity Interested Designing

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

Name House Forty Years Posterity

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

Friedrich Schiller

Posterity Imitators

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

Down Write Being Posterity He After

The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

Words Used Posterity Common Most

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

Write Going Posterity Make Buck

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Youth Nation Posterity

If there's one thing I've written that could survive into posterity, I'd want that to be the poetry.

Poetry Survive Want Posterity Thing

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

Rich Become Posterity Who Those Etc

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor

Wise Writing Posterity Cannot Only

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