Quotes About Legacy

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

A man will be known by his books.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

Let no man's deathbed be a futon.

The man I adored, and miss him terribly, was Johnny Carson.

Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.

Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.