Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

history

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. 6 quotes from Grover Cleveland

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. 2 wisdom & wit from Ralph Abernathy

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created. 6 quotes from William Morris

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. 4 views from Rosa Luxemburg

I came, I saw, I conquered. 12 more quotes from Julius Caesar

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. 50 views from Robert Frost

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me. 5 thoughts from William Jennings Bryan

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch. 2 views from George M. Humphrey

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. 3 other quotes from Harold Wilson

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. 18 more views from Washington Irving

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. 7 thoughts from Arnold J. Toynbee

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. 3 quotes from Edward R. Murrow

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. 20 quotes from Anatole France

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. 7 quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 14 other sayings from Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 14 views from Edward Gibbon

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. 14 views from Clarence Darrow

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. 70 more quotes from Thomas Jefferson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. 17 quotes from John Burroughs

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? 18 views from Emile M. Cioran

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. 14 other quotes from Vladimir Lenin

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. 10 quotes from Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. 10 sayings from Henry James

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. 11 quotes from Nicolas Chamfort

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. 70 quotes from Thomas Jefferson

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. 38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. 4 thoughts from Dean Acheson

Sometimes - history needs a push. 14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. 14 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Lenin

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. 16 quotes from Otto von Bismarck

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. 5 more views from Nikita Khrushchev

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. 3 wisdom & wit from Edward R. Murrow

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! 5 wisdom & wit from Nikita Khrushchev

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. 4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's. 3 more wisdom & wit from Madame de Stael

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. 21 quotes from Karl Marx

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. 21 other thoughts from Malcolm X

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. 46 thoughts from John F. Kennedy

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. 21 more views from Karl Marx

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. 33 sayings from Thomas Huxley

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. 24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. 46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. 30 other quotes from Walt Whitman

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. 53 quotes from Honore de Balzac

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. 24 other thoughts from James A. Baldwin

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. 52 other views from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. 21 other views from Karl Marx

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. 9 thoughts from Margaret Fuller

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. 21 thoughts from Karl Marx

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. 14 quotes from Golda Meir

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. 21 thoughts from Karl Marx

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. 26 quotes from Harry S. Truman

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. 4 views from Jose Ortega y Gasset

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. 46 sayings from John F. Kennedy

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. 46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. 8 other quotes from Joseph Brodsky

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. 15 other quotes from Norman Cousins

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. 10 wisdom & wit from John Maynard Keynes

History is a vast early warning system. 15 quotes from Norman Cousins

Ideas shape the course of history. 10 sayings from John Maynard Keynes

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. 6 other quotes from Jacques Yves Cousteau

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. 14 sayings from Thomas Hardy

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. 15 sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. 47 wisdom & wit from George Orwell

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. 11 more sayings from Thomas Mann

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. 28 other sayings from William Butler Yeats

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. 14 quotes from Jean Anouilh

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. 3 sayings from Luigi Pirandello

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. 45 more sayings from Aldous Huxley

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. 8 quotes from Benito Mussolini

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. 19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville

History is more or less bunk. 32 other thoughts from Henry Ford

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. 17 more sayings from Calvin Coolidge

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. 45 quotes from Aldous Huxley

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. 7 more quotes from John Quincy Adams

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. 2 quotes from Thurgood Marshall

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. 45 wisdom & wit from Aldous Huxley

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. 31 more sayings from Eric Hoffer

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. 12 quotes from Franz Kafka

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. 8 quotes from Benito Mussolini

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. 27 other wisdom & wit from Dave Barry

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. 13 thoughts from Dag Hammarskjold

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. 10 views from Hermann Hesse

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. 32 quotes from Henry Ford

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? 19 quotes from Carl Jung

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. 10 sayings from Hermann Hesse

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. 10 other sayings from Arthur Ashe

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. 7 views from Marcus Garvey

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. 24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. 50 thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. 9 quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. 2 sayings from Eldridge Cleaver

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. 19 wisdom & wit from Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is a set of lies agreed upon. 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. 50 other wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. 20 other thoughts from Herbert Hoover

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. 20 other views from Herbert Hoover

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' 24 views from Lyndon B. Johnson

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. 12 more sayings from Malcolm Forbes

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. 2 other sayings from C. Wright Mills

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. 20 other wisdom & wit from Herbert Hoover

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. 50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. 9 quotes from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me. 24 quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. 5 more sayings from Charles Bukowski

What is history but a fable agreed upon? 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

World history is a court of judgment. 9 thoughts from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. 12 views from Bernard Baruch

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. 6 other sayings from Martin Heidegger

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. 60 sayings from H. L. Mencken

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. 26 sayings from Theodor Adorno

History is a race between education and catastrophe. 19 more thoughts from H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. 19 views from H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas. 19 other wisdom & wit from H. G. Wells

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. 60 more quotes from H. L. Mencken

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. 6 quotes from Martin Heidegger

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. 10 sayings from Ludwig von Mises

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. 4 quotes from Arthur Henderson

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

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. 100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. 33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

History is the science of things which are not repeated. 16 quotes from Paul Valery

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. 29 sayings from Pablo Picasso

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

Legend remains victorious in spite of history. 6 wisdom & wit from Sarah Bernhardt

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. 33 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. 36 other sayings from Theodore Roosevelt

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. 6 views from William O. Douglas

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. 8 other sayings from Frank Herbert

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. 6 quotes from William O. Douglas

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! 33 wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. 16 sayings from Paul Valery

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. 33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

The people who have really made history are the martyrs. 4 views from Aleister Crowley

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. 33 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. 6 wisdom & wit from Timothy Leary

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. 6 views from Leigh Hunt

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. 8 more quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. 20 more views from George S. Patton

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. 20 quotes from George S. Patton

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. 25 quotes from Will Durant

Blood alone moves the wheels of history. 32 other wisdom & wit from Martin Luther

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice. 25 sayings from Will Durant

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. 78 views from Voltaire

History is written by the victors. 74 quotes from Winston Churchill

History should be written as philosophy. 78 sayings from Voltaire

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. 74 wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. 19 views from Charles de Gaulle

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. 2 views from Stefan Zweig

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. 78 quotes from Voltaire

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. 25 more quotes from C. S. Lewis

Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. 4 quotes from Auguste Rodin

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. 7 other wisdom & wit from Louis D. Brandeis

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. 25 views from Will Durant

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. 3 wisdom & wit from James K. Polk

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. 74 other wisdom & wit from Winston Churchill

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. 52 more quotes from George Eliot

The history of the world is the world's court of justice. 29 more sayings from Friedrich Schiller

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. 9 thoughts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. 98 more thoughts from Mark Twain

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain. 12 other quotes from Gene Tierney

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. 14 more sayings from Wendell Phillips

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. 11 thoughts from Jawaharlal Nehru

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. 52 other views from George Eliot

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. 2 more wisdom & wit from Friedrich Engels

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. 2 more wisdom & wit from Alan Shepard

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. 2 more thoughts from Eugene V. Debs

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. 6 quotes from Carter G. Woodson

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. 75 other views from Benjamin Disraeli

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. 12 quotes from Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. 12 quotes from Mao Zedong

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders. 18 other quotes from Margaret Mead

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. 68 sayings from Samuel Butler

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. 46 other sayings from George Santayana

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. 3 quotes from Johan Huizinga

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

History shows that there are no invincible armies. 11 other sayings from Joseph Stalin

History, a distillation of rumour. 58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. 12 more quotes from Rudyard Kipling

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. 19 more quotes from Woodrow Wilson

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. 11 quotes from Rebecca West

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. 58 other sayings from Thomas Carlyle

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. 30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24. 2 views from David M. Shoup

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. 5 wisdom & wit from Anwar Sadat

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. 18 more sayings from Margaret Mead

The history of art is the history of revivals. 68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. 68 more sayings from Samuel Butler

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. 19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. 12 thoughts from Mao Zedong

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. 23 other wisdom & wit from Henry Miller

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. 75 sayings from Benjamin Disraeli

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. 19 quotes from Woodrow Wilson

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 46 quotes from George Santayana

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. 2 quotes from Julien Benda

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. 5 other quotes from Jean Genet

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. 67 more quotes from Francis Bacon

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. 13 quotes from Dante Alighieri

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. 3 views from Edward Kennedy

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. 5 quotes from Christopher Columbus

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. 30 views from Virginia Woolf

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. 3 thoughts from Augustine Birrell

History develops, art stands still. 26 quotes from E. M. Forster

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. 4 quotes from Konrad Adenauer

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages. 9 quotes from Barry Goldwater

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. 12 more sayings from Thomas Merton

Libraries are not made, they grow. 3 more sayings from Augustine Birrell

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. 13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner

That great dust-heap called 'history'. 3 more sayings from Augustine Birrell

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. 2 quotes from William McKinley

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. 4 other quotes from Barbara Tuchman

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. 30 thoughts from Virginia Woolf

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. 40 wisdom & wit from William James

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. 2 wisdom & wit from Horatio Alger

There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. 2 quotes from William Halsey

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. 11 wisdom & wit from Douglas MacArthur

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. 37 other quotes from Edmund Burke

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. 41 thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

World history is tragic. 17 other views from Friedrich Durrenmatt

All history is incomprehensible without Christ. 2 more views from Ernest Renan

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. 22 thoughts from Henry Adams

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. 3 thoughts from Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Failure is impossible. 14 other wisdom & wit from Susan B. Anthony

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. 3 quotes from Nicolaus Copernicus

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. 21 views from W. H. Auden

History takes time. History makes memory. 31 more sayings from Gertrude Stein

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. 22 more sayings from Henry Adams

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. 8 quotes from Charles Darwin

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. 31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. 30 sayings from George Washington

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. 30 wisdom & wit from George Washington

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. 31 sayings from Gertrude Stein

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. 73 other quotes from Victor Hugo

A chronicle is very different from history proper. 9 quotes from Howard Nemerov

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. 7 views from Lawrence Durrell

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. 7 more views from Walter Bagehot