Famous Quotes
10 Quotations with Contemporaries.
- 1. Oscar Wilde: Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contempo ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author ...
- 4. William Faulkner: Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to ...
- 5. William Faulkner: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to ...
- 6. Charles Caleb Colton: Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit; posterity will reg ...
- 7. Vera Brittain: However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contempora ...
- 8. Lynn Harold Hough: It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contempora ...
- 9. Alexis de Tocqueville: Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds the ...
- 10. Boris Pasternak: The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a ...