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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
Author: Virginia Woolf
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
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For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Author: Carl Jung
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
Author: Vaclav Havel
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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Author: Earl Of Chesterfield
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Author: Francois Mitterrand
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Author: Matsuo Basho
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Author: Will Durant
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War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Author: Thomas Hardy
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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Author: Vicki Baum
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
Author: Walter Benjamin
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
Author: John Berger
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Author: George Clemenceau
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
Author: James A. Baldwin
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My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Author: Charles De Gaulle
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Author: G. Gordon Liddy
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Author: Gen Douglas Macarthur
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Author: Edward R. Murrow
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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Author: Marge Piercy
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
Author: Joseph Stalin
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No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
Author: Henry Kissinger
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The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Author: Voltaire
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The Thames is liquid history.
Author: John Burns
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Author: Grover Cleveland
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How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Author: Charles De Gaulle
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It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Author: Samuel Butler
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To many fame comes too late.
Author: Luis De Camoens
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Author: Francis Bacon
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Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
Author: Samuel Davies
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Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
Author: Caleb Bingham
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
Author: Sting
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The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
Author: Gerald R. Ford
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I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Author: Herbert Hoover
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Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Author: Edward M. Kennedy
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90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.
Author: Colin Powell
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
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The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
Author: Frederich Wilhelm Nietzche
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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Author: C. D. Andrews
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I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
Author: Edward Vii
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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.
Author: Francis Herbert Hedge
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America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
Author: Clarence Darrow
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Author: John Barth
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