Quotes About Legacy

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Books are dead men talking.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.

Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.