Quotes
Quotes about History
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the worldâor the last.
The men who make history have not time to write it.
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not to write it.
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it 'dull' that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
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.
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
