History Quotes
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.George William Curtis
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.Woody Allen
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.Gustave Flaubert
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.Charles Sumne
History is philosophy teaching by examples.Henry St. John Bolingbroke
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.Donald Creighton
Some people make headlines while others make history.Philip Elmer - DeWitt, in Time Magazine
History is a set of lies agreed upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.William H. Borah
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
An attempt is already underway to revise history - To leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break - In.John J. Sirica
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratliffe
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.John Still
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.W. H. Auden
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.Benjamin Disraeli
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken.James Joyce
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.Dan Quayle, 09/88
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.Aldous Huxley
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.Jean Bodin
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.Dave Barry
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.Eda J. Le Shan
During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U. S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.Stephen Ambrose, D - Day, page 577
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.Albert Camus
History never looks like history when you are living through it.John W. Gardner, quoted by Bill Moyers
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.Mitch Ratcliffe
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.Mahatma Gandhi, _Gandhi, An Autobiography_, page 446
History is a vision of God? s creation on the move.Arnold Toynbee
