Posterity Quotes

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

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.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

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.

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

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

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