#posterity

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

#everything #having #know #me #perhaps

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

#anything #i #i do #just #money

Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn And broils roots out the work of masonry, Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. So, till judgement that yourself arise, You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fame #memory #monuments #posterity #remembrance

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#posterity #trustees #youth

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

#before #disgrace #forty #forty years #house

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. ↗

— Sam Houston

#give #honest #honest man #i #if i could

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#discovery #explained #hope #i #i hope that

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#great #i #institution #journalism #leave

I'm interested in designing for posterity. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#i #interested #posterity

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#going #judgments #lot #makes #posterity