Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Groucho Marx
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever...
BOYLE ROCHE Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for
posterity; for what has posterity don...
SIR BOYLE ROCHE Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us
ABRAHAM LINCOLN As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige me?
THOMAS GRAY As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: Wh...
JOHN TRUMBULL 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 History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.
STACY SCHIFF Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winne...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC 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 I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid.
MICHAEL FELDMAN Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posteri...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the...
HERMAN MELVILLE 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 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) Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu v...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS (CURTIS RUFUS QUINTUS) 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) 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) Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT G. MENZIES 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 What has poster'ty done for us,
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our ...
JOHN TRUMBULL 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 Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
ROBERT MENZIES 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 Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want...
ISABEL ALLENDE I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.
DOUG LIMAN The only real laughter comes from despair.
GROUCHO MARX I’ll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she turns 18.
GROUCHO MARX And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
PIERRE DE FERMAT Michelangelo told [his biographer] Condivi what to write, ... Michelangelo was aware of posterity, s...
ROSS KING Then there came after them an evil posterity who inherited the Book, taking only the frail good of t...
QURAN Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, trave...
LORD BYRON POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, t...
AMBROSE BIERCE A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Posterity will pay everyone their due.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shu...
MARK TWAIN To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow.
It is to aspire to ...
NICOLáS GóMEZ DáVILA When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the ce...
ROBERT BRINGHURST It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Posterity will pay everyone their due.
TACITUS Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posteri...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH Posterity gives every man his true value.
TACITUS Posterity gives every man his true value.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and ...
ELLIOTT GOULD The world would not be in such a snarl,/ had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.
IRVING BERLIN Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspe...
JOHN LITHGOW Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
JOHN ADAMS A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
GEORGE ADE The function of posterity is to look after itself.
DYLAN THOMAS 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 To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the bes...
W.G. SEBALD The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab hi...
BIBLE Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I h...
JOHN ADAMS I do not attach
any exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life is
there to be lived...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Almost I feel the pulsebeat of the ages,
Now swift, now slow, beneath my fingertips.
The ...
GRACE NOLL CROWELL Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are real...
EDWARD ABBEY 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 Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
HEYWOOD BROUN Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
HEYWOOD BROUN The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of rem...
ZACHARY QUINTO Why should I care? Why should I care? ... 5:15
PETE TOWNSHEND Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
IRWIN SHAW This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
VOLTAIRE If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
CHARLOTTE SMITH I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the...
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GROUCHO MARX Go, and never darken my towels again.
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GROUCHO MARX Women should be obscene and not heard.
GROUCHO MARX Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club
that will accept me as a member.
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GROUCHO MARX Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
GROUCHO MARX Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money
GROUCHO MARX Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women
GROUCHO MARX A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
GROUCHO MARX Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!
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GROUCHO MARX If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
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GROUCHO MARX If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
GROUCHO MARX One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
GROUCHO MARX Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.
GROUCHO MARX Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
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GROUCHO MARX It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
GROUCHO MARX Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member
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GROUCHO MARX I'm giving you 30 days to live.
GROUCHO MARX She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party
GROUCHO MARX Believe me, you have to get up early if you want to get out of bed
GROUCHO MARX A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
GROUCHO MARX And I want to thank you for all the enjoyment you've taken out of it.
GROUCHO MARX Remember, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably far more than she's ever done!
GROUCHO MARX Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.
GROUCHO MARX Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?
GROUCHO MARX I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that
GROUCHO MARX A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
GROUCHO MARX Blood's not thicker than money
GROUCHO MARX I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
GROUCHO MARX Marry me and I'll never look at another horse!
GROUCHO MARX The only real laughter comes from despair.
GROUCHO MARX Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?
A: Someone who stay...
GROUCHO MARX Either this man is dead
or my watch has stopped.
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GROUCHO MARX I cannot say that I do not disagree with you
GROUCHO MARX I would never belong to a group that would accept someone like me as a member.
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GROUCHO MARX Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honor; which is probably more than she ever did.
GROUCHO MARX I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member
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GROUCHO MARX