Quotes
Quotes about Post
(He) put that which was most material in the postscript.
And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries: . . . . So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decrees was given at Shushan the palace.
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
The postman always rings twice.
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit. [Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den Augenblick geboren; Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.]
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum Rara juventus.]
The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do something for us."
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]
We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
And it is a common saying that it is best first to catch the stag, and afterwards, when he has been caught, to skin him. [Lat., Et vulgariter dicitur, quod primun oportet cervum capere, et postea, cum captus fuerit, illum excoriare.]
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.
Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.]
