Legacy Ponderers Gifts

Made It! Without getting one tattoo.

"I burden you with the national debt, you burden your kids with it, and so on. . ."

Historical memory is on life support.

"This number goes out to all the little people I met on my way back down."

"WOW, we're on top of the world!"

"Good old Frank. He was always thinking of others."

"My father was a Brexit negotiator and his father before him..."

'Egad! It's the ghosts of sanity past!'

"I think you're suffering from nostalgia, Mr. Prentice."

"... and finally, to my children I leave the four mosquitos and the horsefly in the top left corner."

"Son when I'm gone, all this will be yours!"

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

'I'd prefer it if the view was closer.'

'One day, this will all be your fault.'

"I just don't know what to do with myself in that long stretch after college but before social security."

The Loneliness of Power

'You may choose either everlasting life or whatever is behind the curtain.'

Horatio T. Osborn, born 1787, died 1852, greatness thrust upon him 1825.

"I hate to break it to you, but you weren't his best friend."

"See, the problem with doing things to prolong your life is that all the extra years come at the end, when you're old."

Clement Attlee

"The Founding Fathers?! Ha! That’ll never stick!"

Eggs That Were Anagarms In Past Lives -'Unscramble Me'.

'You rejected my great grandfather and my father. I demand you recuse yourself!'

'Bad news I'm afraid...You've got the worst inheritence for a generation.'

The past only looks good when you're living in the present.

"I wish he had taken it with him...it's all debt!"

'A role model? Yes, I suppose he was. Everywhere he went, people would say 'That's Bill Fenton... You don't want to be that guy!''

"The lack of perspective kills me..."

"My biggest fear is being judged fairly by history."

"I like our history teacher, but he talks too much about the past."

"Hell, as Jean-Paul Sartre once said, is other peoples' inheritance tracks."

How Human Nature Works: 'Ok...Now I'm worried.'