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| History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~ Pearl Buck |
| History is philosophy teaching by examples. ~ Thucydides, |
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din
Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~ African Proverb |
| The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. ~ John Still, |
| All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon. ~ Voltaire, |
| Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree. ~ Michael Crichton, |
| We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. ~ Dick Gregory |
| History is herstory, too. ~ Author Unknown |
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| A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~ Winston Churchill |
| History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. ~ Thomas Carlyle |
| History is a novel for which the people is the author. ~ Alfred de Vigny, |
| History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. ~ Dexter Perkins |
| History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil. ~ Joseph Heller, |
| Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. ~ Herodotus, |
| History: gossip well told. ~ Elbert Hubbard, |
| History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. ~ Charles Angoff |
| If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! ~ George Macaulay Trevelyan |
| The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter. ~ Hendrik Wilhelm van Loon, |
| Historians are gossips who tease the dead. ~ Voltaire, |
| History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. ~ Voltaire |
| We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ~ Robert Penn Warren, |
| History never looks like history when you are living through it. ~ John W. Gardner |
| Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ~ H.L. Mencken |
| God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ~ Samuel Butler |
| History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. ~ Konrad Adenauer |
| Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I’ve got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And – speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik – if the Sixties head my way, they won’t get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they’re supposed to be. ~ P.J. O’Rourke |
| The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ~ Mark Twain, |