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


Groucho Marx

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?
THOMAS GRAY
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: Wh...
JOHN TRUMBULL
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
JOSEPH ADDISON
We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us...
JOSEPH ADDISON
History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.
STACY SCHIFF
Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winne...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
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SIR RICHARD STEELE
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JOSEPH ADDISON
I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid.
MICHAEL FELDMAN
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the...
HERMAN MELVILLE
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS)
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the conti...
SIR RICHARD STEELE
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
MADAME DE STAEL (BARONNE ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL-HOLSTEIN)
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu v...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS)
The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...
MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU (MONTAGUE)
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugn...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' ...
GOLDONI
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit. [Ger....
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numero...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT G. MENZIES
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
HEYWOOD C. BROUN
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, A...
W. R. INGE
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n...
ISAAC DISRAELI
I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier tha...
FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our ...
JOHN TRUMBULL
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
EDMUND BURKE
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
HORACE BINNEY WALLACE
The function of posterity is to look after itself
DYLAN THOMAS
Surely your enemy is the one who shall be without posterity, / Say: O unbelievers! / I do not serve ...
QURAN
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
For the camera and for posterity, Stanley Marcus and Estee Lauder greeted each other with an embrace...
KENNEDY FRASER
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave beh...
HENRY R. LUCE
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
And my chutneys and kasaundies are, after all, connected to my nocturnal scribblings –– by day a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT MENZIES
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but ...
HENRY CLAY
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but ...
HENRY CLAY
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want...
ISABEL ALLENDE
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
DOUG LIMAN
The only real laughter comes from despair.
GROUCHO MARX
I’ll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she turns 18.
GROUCHO MARX
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
PIERRE DE FERMAT
Michelangelo told [his biographer] Condivi what to write, ... Michelangelo was aware of posterity, s...
ROSS KING
Then there came after them an evil posterity who inherited the Book, taking only the frail good of t...
QURAN
Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES
Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD BYRON
POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, t...
AMBROSE BIERCE
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shu...
MARK TWAIN
To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow.
It is to aspire to ...
NICOLáS GóMEZ DáVILA
When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the ce...
ROBERT BRINGHURST
It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUS
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posteri...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH
Posterity gives every man his true value.
TACITUS
Posterity gives every man his true value.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and ...
ELLIOTT GOULD
The world would not be in such a snarl,/ had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN
The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspe...
JOHN LITHGOW
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
JOHN ADAMS
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
GEORGE ADE
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
DYLAN THOMAS
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the bes...
W.G. SEBALD
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab hi...
BIBLE
Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS
I do not attach
any exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life is
there to be lived...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages,
Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips.
The ...
GRACE NOLL CROWELL
Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are real...
EDWARD ABBEY
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary
THOMAS PAINE
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
THOMAS PAINE
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
HEYWOOD BROUN
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
HEYWOOD BROUN
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of rem...
ZACHARY QUINTO
Why should I care? Why should I care? ... 5:15
PETE TOWNSHEND
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
IRWIN SHAW
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
VOLTAIRE
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
CHARLOTTE SMITH
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the...
SAM HOUSTON

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Remember, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably far more than she's ever done!
GROUCHO MARX
Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.
GROUCHO MARX
Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?
GROUCHO MARX
I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that
GROUCHO MARX
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
GROUCHO MARX
Blood's not thicker than money
GROUCHO MARX
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
GROUCHO MARX
Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!
GROUCHO MARX
The only real laughter comes from despair.
GROUCHO MARX
Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?
A: Someone who stay...
GROUCHO MARX
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
GROUCHO MARX
Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
GROUCHO MARX
Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I...
GROUCHO MARX
I cannot say that I do not disagree with you
GROUCHO MARX
I would never belong to a group that would accept someone like me as a member.
GROUCHO MARX
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. Wh...
GROUCHO MARX
Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honor; which is probably more than she ever did.
GROUCHO MARX
I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member
GROUCHO MARX
Did I ever tell you how I shot a wild elephant in my pyjamas? How he got into my pyjamas I'll never ...
GROUCHO MARX