A Quote by Peter Biskind

I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.

Peter Biskind

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Peter Biskind
American - Critic
Born: May 22, 1940

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

Benjamin Disraeli

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

John Trumbull

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

Robert Menzies

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

Abraham Maslow

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

The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

Ron Chernow

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

Boyle Roche

What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

Marcel Proust

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

Henry Clay

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

Eric Holder

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

American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.