Posterity Quotes

• Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Posterity
  • Imitators
  • Weaves

• 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.

  

  Alice James
  • Life
  • Success
  • Failure

• What is called posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Work
  • Art
  • Posterity

• Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Hope
  • Minds
  • Slipshod

• Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.

  

  William Cowper
  • Eagles
  • Invincible
  • Flew

• We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.

  

  Mike Stoller
  • Thought
  • Songs
  • Because

• Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Glory
  • Posterity
  • Sroud

• Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

  

  Len Wein
  • Art
  • Eyes
  • Mistakes

• Posterity will pay everyone their due.

  

  Tacitus
  • Pay
  • Posterity
  • Due

• We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Heaven

• It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity) compasses all nature. All beside this has been added, after the mythical style, for the purpose of persuading the multitude, and for the interests of the laws, and the advantage of the state.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Advantage
  • Gods

• All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Loved
  • Artists
  • Posterity

• I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Accomplishment
  • Posterity
  • Requiring

• My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.

  

  James Boswell
  • Wife
  • Figure
  • Journalizing

• The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

  

  William M. Evarts
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Judgment

• Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Revolution
  • Washington
  • Great Empire

• I'm interested in designing for posterity.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Posterity
  • Designing

• We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Talent
  • Posterity
  • Antiquity

• Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Knows
  • Posterity

• ..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

  

  George Washington
  • Taxes
  • Occasions
  • Avoiding

• We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

  

  William Penn
  • Generation
  • Considering
  • Careless

• The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.

  

  Henry Knox
  • Eye
  • Curse
  • Posterity

• Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Knows
  • Littles
  • Posterity

• Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Posterity

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