We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph Addison
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
Elmore Leonard
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Groucho Marx
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
Boyle Roche
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Friedrich Schiller
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Charlotte Smith
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas