Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Blake

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Salman Rushdie

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Salman Rushdie

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

W. H. Auden

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

W. H. Auden

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Rodney Dangerfield

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

Robert Penn Warren

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

Robert Penn Warren

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Robert E. Lee

History teaches us hope.

Saul Williams

Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it

Saul Williams

What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

Saul Williams

I have a very family-like connection to hip-hop, which is why it frustrates me so much.

Saul Bellow

Well, everybody has a history.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Winston Churchill

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

Will Rogers

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Will Rogers

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

Wilfred Owen

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Washington Irving

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

Washington Irving

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

Walter Kaufmann

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Voltaire

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

William Least Heat-Moon

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

William Kidd

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.

Samuel Johnson

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Samuel Johnson

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.