History Quotes - random
What then is, generally speaking, the [[truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
Honor made him a man. Courage made him a hero. History made him a Legend.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
History breaks down in images not into stories.
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
"Some credit him with saving more human lives than any other person in history."
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
History is a vast early warning system.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
Pudge is so old, they didn't have history class when he went to school.