Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aldous Huxley

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

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at.

Omar N. Bradley

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

That's a lot. It was one of the most we've made in my history.

Terry Pratchett

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

Terry Pratchett

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Lawrence Durrell

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Leo Tolstoy

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Joseph J. Ellis

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

Mao Zedong

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

Henry L. Stimson

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

It's obviously a big challenge. Nobody's ever done it (as a sixth-seeded team). We're going to try to make history and be the first ones.

Andrea Jung

It's a proud moment for this company, ... Avon and the people of Suffern have had so much history together.

This is the largest pre-order in e-commerce history on a single product. Our last largest one was at about 43,000 units. Now we're at six times that level.

Robert Gottlieb

'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Rick Perlstein

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

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

Bobby Jindal

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Nathaniel Philbrick

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Johan Santana

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.