Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

Patrick Henry

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Joseph Joubert

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Molly Ivins

Of course, it has never paid much.

Milton Friedman

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Mary McCarthy

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

Mark Twain

It's so damned humiliating.

Muhammad Iqbal

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

Miguel de Unamuno

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

Leopold Von Ranke

In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.

Leon Trotsky

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Omar N. Bradley

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time...

Marc Bloch

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

Margaret Thatcher

We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

Margaret Thatcher

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

That might be the first time in school history we're 5-0, but I can't say that for sure.

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

Brodie Croyle

That's all we talked about all week, that we could make 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.

Ted Koppel

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our best history is still poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is properly no history, only biography.

Lawrence Durrell

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

Joseph Conrad

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

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.