Posterity Quotes - Page 4

• 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?

  Robert Walpole

  Hypocrite, Years, Names

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• A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  History

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.555, Wordsworth Editions

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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  Orson Welles

  Money, Thinking, Sake

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of human rights, and of giving it a form without example, which, as they believe, unites the greatest national strength with the best security for public order and individual liberty, they owe to themselves, to their posterity and to the world, a preservation of the system in its purity, its symmetry, and its authenticity.

  James Madison

  Believe, Rights, Government

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.138

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• A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

  Herman Melville

  Grief, Joy, Ancestry

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

  Petrarch

  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity.

  Pericles

  Country, Memories, War

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• Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of old; but how few of those former places can their posterity trace, amid avenues of modern erections; to how few is the old guide-book now a clew! Every age makes its own guide-books, and the old ones are used for waste paper.

  Herman Melville

  Father, Book, Age

  Herman Melville (1963). “Works: Redburn, his first voyage”

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Science, Men

  "The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• 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

  People, Gentleman, May

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1882). “Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield”

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• This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men, Vitality

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.206, 谷月社

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• The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one's conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Destiny, Decision

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• So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

  Tacitus

  Doubt, Obscurity, Facts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1860). “The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...”, p.119

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• I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

  Doug Liman

  Scared, Studios

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• 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

  Strong, Thinking, Wife

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• It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Appreciate, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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

  Henry Knox

  Eye, Play, America

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• After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sex, Queens, Numbers

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• Posterity is always just.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reputation

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly (1998). “The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes”, p.582, UPNE

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• Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Life Changing, People, Interesting

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• We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued by future generations as authentic and reliable, ... Errors in history and doctrine, if left uncorrected by us who are conversant with the events, and who are in a position to judge of the truth or falsity of the doctrines, would go to our children as though we had sanctioned and endorsed them.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Names, Errors

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• What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Writing

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• 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

  Names, Empires, Revolution

  "Quotations for Special Occasions". Book by Maud Van Buren, 1937.

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• He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Justice, Perfection

  "Characters: Of Works of the Mind," #67, 1688.

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