Category: History Quotes SMS
History Quotes SMS
Our history is every human history a
Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than…
History is a damn dim candle over
[History is] a damn dim candle over a damn dark abyss. ~W. Stull HoltSH
History in general only informs us what
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. ~Thomas Jefferson, letter to John…
All that the historians give us are
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and…
Wars usually have the effect of speeding
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. ~Pieter Geyl, Debates…
History begins in novel and ends essay
History begins in novel and ends in essay. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay, quoted in Literature and…
History is politics projected into the past
History is politics projected into the past. ~M.N. Pokrovsky, quoted in Historians and the Holocaust…
History a collection of epitaphs elbert hubbard
History: a collection of epitaphs. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft DictionarySH
History is the sum total of things
History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. ~Konrad Adenauer,…
History is fallible as every man fallible
[History] is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a…
Histories used often to be stories the
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. …
History is a novel for which the
History is a novel for which the people is the author. ~Alfred de Vigny, Réflexions…
That is the triumph of history
[T]hat is the triumph of history – truth absolute is not at hand; the original…
A recorded past is no more than
A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made…
History knows that it can wait for
History knows that it can wait for more evidence and review its older verdicts; it…
History is the record of what one
History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. ~Jacob…
Man is an historical animal with a
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if…
History like thermodynamics wont let you out
History, like thermodynamics, won’t let you out. ~Ira Haron
History gossip well told elbert hubbard the
History: gossip well told. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft DictionarySH
History is the myth true of mans
History is the myth, the true myth, of man’s fall made manifest in time. ~Henry…
History maketh a young man to be
History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; priviledging…
A look at the past reminds us
A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how…
History paints the human heart napoleon i
History paints the human heart. ~Napoleon I, quoted in Napoleon by H.A.L. Fisher; SH
If one could make alive again for
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead…
Too many historical writers are the votaries
Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to…
History was a trash bag of random
google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely,…
Man watches his history on the screen
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of…
Princes should have more to fear from
Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters. …
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And…
No one can really know the life
No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of…
And how fascinating history is the
And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution…
History is that terrible mill in which
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. ~Edith SitwellSH
History is petrified imagination arthur baer
[History is] petrified imagination. ~Arthur BaerSH
History is the discipline closest to life
History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions. ~Karl…
If you think have it tough read
If you think you have it tough, read history books. ~Bill Maherrdqq8.11
History is a vast early warning system
History is a vast early warning system. ~Norman Cousins, quoted in Saturday Review, 15 Apr…
The obscurest epoch is today robert louis
The obscurest epoch is today. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the PlainsSH
History attempts to provide society with an
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. ~Mark M. Krug, History and…
It is striking how history when resting
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the…
The writing of histories as goethe
The writing of histories – as Goethe once noted – is one way of getting…
Sin writes histories goodness is silent johann
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Table – TalkSH
The challenge of history is to recover
The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. …
History is concerned primarily with human phenomena
History is concerned primarily with human phenomena, not with natural; and history is doubly human…
I dont know much about history and
I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the…
History is a cyclic poem written by
History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. ~Percy Bysshe…
History is the story of events with
History is the story of events, with praise or blame. ~Cotton Mather, Selections from Cotton…
The past remains integral to us all
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients…
Delusion about history is a serious matter
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is…
History is an aggregation of truths half truths
History… is an aggregation of truths, half-truths, semi-truths, fables, myths, rumors, prejudices, personal narratives, gossip,…
A history in which every particular incident
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be…
Every great writer is a of history
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject…
History is nothing but a problem of
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. ~Hippolyte Taine, quoted in…
Civilization is a stream with banks the
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people…
Most history is guessing and the rest
Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. ~Will and Ariel Durant, Our Oriental…
Historian a broad gauge gossip ambrose bierce the
Historian: A broad-gauge gossip. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s DictionarySH
People tend to forget that the word
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". ~Ken Burns
History is the essence of innumerable biographies
History is the essence of innumerable biographies. ~Thomas Carlyle, On HistoryBMC
It is pleasant to be transferred from
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a…
History is a melodrama on the theme
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting…
History is a tyranny over the souls
[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination…
History being the record of human action
History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is…
History like a vast river propels logs
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of…
Perhaps nobody has changed the course of
Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians. ~Franklin P….
History is full of the dead weight
History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of…
If the past has been an obstacle
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is…
Every major horror of history was committed
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has…
Neither a wise man nor brave lies
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history…
The memories of men are too frail
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. ~John Still,…
History is indeed little more than the
History… is, indeed, little more than the register of the ‘crimes, follies, and misfortunes’ of…
History is philosophy teaching by examples thucydides
History is philosophy teaching by examples. ~Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian WarSH; History is…
Historians of literature like to regard a
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each…
Too many so called historians are really hysterians
Too many so-called historians are really ‘hysterians’; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When…
The great eventful present hides the past
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life…
The dead hand has too long hampered
The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. ~James Robertson, Report…
Some historians hold that history is just
[Some historians hold that history] is just one damned thing after another. ~Arnold ToynbeeSH
Legend a lie that has attained the
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ~H.L. Mencken
As geography without history seemeth a carkasse
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as…
It is a great pity that every
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage…
The effects of human wickedness are written
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of…
The historian has been the hearth at
The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been…
History studies not just facts and institutions
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. ~Fustel…
People think too historically they are always
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. ~Aristide BriandSH
What is the fire in our belly
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors. …
History is a nightmare from which i
History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~James Joyce, UlyssesSH
The public history of all countries and
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask,…
Isnt it amazing the way future succeeds
Isn’t it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? ~John LeonardFD
The historian and the detective have much
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. ~Mark M. Krug, History and the…