Quotes About Legacy

It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.

I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

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A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.

Then out spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods... Lays of Ancient Rome

Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct historical shadows to the generation immediately following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

There is no permanent winning or losing when things move, as they should, in a circle. For is not life continuous? And though I shall die, shall I not also continue to live in everything that is?

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

John Brown's body lies a-moldering in the grave,His soul is marching on.

The lives of such are most desirable, and the deaths of such will be most lamented, who make it their business to serve their generation.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.

Our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years: generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not but three oaks.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than to die rich

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes. The commerce of the living is not to be transferred unto the dead; it is not injustice to take that which none complains to lose, and no man is wronged where no man is possessor.

Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time? The first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only chronicle.

Generations passe while some trees stand, and old Families last not three Oaks.