Posterity quotes

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◆ If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.

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◆ Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

- Boyle Roche99

◆ I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

- Robert E Lee99

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

- Groucho Marx99

◆ I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

- Sam Houston99

◆ 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 Luce99

◆ The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

- Ignatius Donnelly99

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

- Walter Savage Landor99

◆ Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

- James Joyce99

◆ 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 Cossman99

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

- Pierre De Fermat99

◆ What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe99

◆ We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

- Joseph Addison99

◆ It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

- Joseph Addison99

◆ A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

- James Russell Lowell99