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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.
Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
[Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.
One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.
I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Ultimately, the appraisal of Grant's presidency rests upon posterity's view of Reconstruction.
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
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?
In the past, once a movie musical was made, it was believed that you were left with that version, good or bad, for posterity.
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.
I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.
