I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

- Elmore Leonard

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

- Robert E. Lee

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

- Joseph Addison

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

- Jorge Luis Borges

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

- Henry Clay

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

- George Ade

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

- Groucho Marx

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

- Friedrich Schiller

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

- Benjamin Disraeli

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

- Dudley North

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.

- Danny Aiello

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

- Dylan Thomas

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

- Charlotte Smith

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

- Charles Caleb Colton

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

- Boyle Roche