Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Philip Guedalla

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Martin H. Fischer

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

Henry Home

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Henry Home

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Anita Brookner

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Anita Brookner

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

John Keegan

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

John Acton

The greatest men, you can quote for everything.

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Charles Feaga

He registered Republican as a youngster. I think he'll support the Republican party.

Gary Sinise

I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.

Tom Perry

They can't sell it until it's registered with us, which it was not.

Bob Wilson

There has to be some methodology about who comes off that register to be interviewed. There is no standardized process.

The Jerusalem

Your son is not and was never registered here.

James Dempsey

I'm not sure that Registered Traveler should be a research program.