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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for
posterity; for what has posterity don...
SIR BOYLE ROCHE![]()
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
GROUCHO MARX![]()
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: Wh...
JOHN TRUMBULL![]()
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posteri...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posteri...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN![]()
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![]()
We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something ...
SIR RICHARD STEELE![]()
"We are always doing," says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do somethin...
JOSEPH ADDISON![]()
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige me?
THOMAS GRAY![]()
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.
LAURYN HILL![]()
History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.
STACY SCHIFF![]()
By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus
between doing and increas...
STEPHEN R. COVEY![]()
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the...
HERMAN MELVILLE![]()
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![]()
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 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) Life is only one for you & time limited,so do the best to impact life in your own little way & leave...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)![]()
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu v...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)![]()
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 What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our ...
JOHN TRUMBULL![]()
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we bein...
P.D. JAMES![]()
Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now a...
IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA![]()
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.![]()
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH![]()
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms....
ORSON WELLES Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS)![]()
The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can rememb...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA![]()
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH![]()
For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by comm...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.![]()
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed ou...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON![]()
When you receive what you begged for, it only lasts for a short time. But what you build day after d...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR![]()
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
GEORGE ADE![]()
We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shu...
MARK TWAIN Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
IRWIN SHAW Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT G. MENZIES![]()
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT MENZIES Into God's hands let us now -- for the coming year, and for all the years of time, and for Eternity ...
EDWARD B. PUSEY![]()
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL![]()
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He mu...
ARTHUR SYMONS![]()
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remai...
ALBERT PIKE To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow.
It is to aspire to ...
NICOLáS GóMEZ DáVILA![]()
In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in...
F. W. DE KLERK 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)![]()
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)![]()
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![]()
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![]()
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our cons...
ROBERT E. LEE![]()
O Devil, why do you hit us when we are down? Old boy, I know that you have no time for me, and I gue...
BILLY SUNDAY![]()
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the...
HERMAN MELVILLE![]()
As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem...
ROSE KENNEDY![]()
Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leade...
ROBERT MENZIES![]()
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 A blog is an ideal way of doing a brain dump on a daily basis of what is going on right now, the wei...
DAVID ADAMS![]()
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON![]()
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nea...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN![]()
We should responsibly carry out the business that God has assigned for us to do
SUNDAY ADELAJA![]()
Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winne...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC![]()
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
DOUG LIMAN Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he...
ADAM CLARKE And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
PIERRE DE FERMAT I don't see why we should go out there and settle for anything less.
JOE SMITH![]()
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of J...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN We shouldn't think about what we can do for ourselves, but what we can do for the people we are supp...
JUSTIN BULLOCK![]()
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR![]()
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
MEIR EZRA I'm not predicting anything but for us to go out there and play to our potential and that's what we'...
KARL DORRELL What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
ALBERT PINE Fate has put us in the same way for us to meet and unite our lives forever.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Why do they want to kill us if we haven't done anything?
LUIS MANDOKI![]()
a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done fo...
RUPI KAUR![]()
True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him w...
GEORGE R. HENDRICK![]()
True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him w...
GEORGE R. HENDRICK Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us and ours. And when we and ours ...
OLD SAYING
SIR BOYLE ROCHE
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? GROUCHO MARX
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us ABRAHAM LINCOLN As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: Wh...
JOHN TRUMBULL
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posteri... ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posteri... ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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
We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something ... SIR RICHARD STEELE
"We are always doing," says he, "something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do somethin... JOSEPH ADDISON
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige me? THOMAS GRAY
Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us. LAURYN HILL
History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well. STACY SCHIFF
By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus
between doing and increas... STEPHEN R. COVEY
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the... HERMAN MELVILLE
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
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 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) Life is only one for you & time limited,so do the best to impact life in your own little way & leave...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu v... SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)
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 What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our ...
JOHN TRUMBULL
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we bein... P.D. JAMES
Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now a... IFEANYI ENOCH ONUOHA
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. ALEXANDER SMITH
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms.... ORSON WELLES Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS)
The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can rememb... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. ALEXANDER SMITH
For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by comm... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed ou... WILLIAM J. CLINTON
When you receive what you begged for, it only lasts for a short time. But what you build day after d... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. GEORGE ADE
We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shu... MARK TWAIN Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
IRWIN SHAW Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT G. MENZIES
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ROBERT MENZIES Into God's hands let us now -- for the coming year, and for all the years of time, and for Eternity ...
EDWARD B. PUSEY
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He mu... ARTHUR SYMONS
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remai... ALBERT PIKE To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow.
It is to aspire to ...
NICOLáS GóMEZ DáVILA
In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in... F. W. DE KLERK 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)
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)
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
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
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our cons... ROBERT E. LEE
O Devil, why do you hit us when we are down? Old boy, I know that you have no time for me, and I gue... BILLY SUNDAY
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the... HERMAN MELVILLE
As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem... ROSE KENNEDY
Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leade... ROBERT MENZIES
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 A blog is an ideal way of doing a brain dump on a daily basis of what is going on right now, the wei...
DAVID ADAMS
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our ... THOMAS JEFFERSON
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nea... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We should responsibly carry out the business that God has assigned for us to do SUNDAY ADELAJA
Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winne... DEJAN STOJANOVIC
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio. DOUG LIMAN Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he...
ADAM CLARKE And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
PIERRE DE FERMAT I don't see why we should go out there and settle for anything less.
JOE SMITH
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of J... JOHN HENRY NEWMAN We shouldn't think about what we can do for ourselves, but what we can do for the people we are supp...
JUSTIN BULLOCK
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. MEIR EZRA I'm not predicting anything but for us to go out there and play to our potential and that's what we'...
KARL DORRELL What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
ALBERT PINE Fate has put us in the same way for us to meet and unite our lives forever.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Why do they want to kill us if we haven't done anything?
LUIS MANDOKI
a lot of timeswe are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done fo...
RUPI KAUR
True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him w... GEORGE R. HENDRICK
True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him w... GEORGE R. HENDRICK Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us and ours. And when we and ours ...
OLD SAYING
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as... 
And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, thi... 
The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both chall... 