Posterity - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47853<![CDATA[A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47854<![CDATA[The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47845<![CDATA[Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47846<![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47847<![CDATA[Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47848<![CDATA[Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47849<![CDATA[The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47850<![CDATA[We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47851<![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852<![CDATA[What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit. [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47840<![CDATA[He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47841<![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47842<![CDATA[Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum Rara ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47843<![CDATA[I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47844<![CDATA[People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47833<![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47834<![CDATA[Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47835<![CDATA[Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47836<![CDATA[Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47837<![CDATA[He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47838<![CDATA[Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47839<![CDATA[After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47830<![CDATA[I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47831<![CDATA[The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47832<![CDATA[It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39147<![CDATA[Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19531