Category: History Quotes SMS
History Quotes SMS
You dont change the course of history
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the…
This is my history like all other
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. ~Samuel Johnson, letter…
History is a jangle of accidents blunders
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge…
History fades into fable fact becomes clouded
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from…
History portrays everything as if it could
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the…
The past actually happened but history is
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ~A. Whitney Brown,…
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct…
History is past politics and politics present
History is past politics, and politics present history. ~John Robert Seeley, The Growth of British…
History is the sextant of states which
[H]istory is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost…
It is part of my creed that
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell…
A nation that forgets its past can
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. …
History is merely gossip oscar wilde lady
History is merely gossip. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s FanSH
The study of history is the playground
The study of history is the playground of patriotism. ~George M. Wrong, Review of Public…
When a history book contains no lies
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. ~Anatole France, The Crime…
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of…
Unlike poetry and music the art of
Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. ~John Clive, Not By Fact…
The past is really almost as much
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. …
The unrecorded past is none other than
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval…
It takes a great deal of history
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ~Henry James, Life…
The real history does not get written
The real history does not get written, because it is not in people’s brains but…
We are never completely contemporaneous with our
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on…
The day before yesterday always has been
The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and…
We are the prisoners of history or
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? ~Robert Penn Warren, SegregationSH
History an account mostly false of events
History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers…
Man simply cannot live as the time animal
Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. …
The game of history is usually played
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the…
There is no such thing as a
There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion…
It might be a good idea if
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally…
More historys made by secret handshakes than
More history’s made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. ~John Barth, The…
History is a mixture of error and
[History is a] mixture of error and violence. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in Between…
Perhaps history is a thing that would
Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or…
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors
History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ~Paul Eldridge, Maxims for a…
History is a tool used by politicians
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. ~Ted Koppel
The historian lays humanity on the couch
[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch. ~Lynn White, Jr., Machina Ex Deo: Essays in…
The very ink with which all history
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ~Mark Twain,…
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
Historians are gossips who tease the dead. ~Voltaire, Scribbling BooksSH
Even the most painstaking history is a
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. ~Bruce Catton, Prefaces…
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may…
The future is dark the present burdensome
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. …
One of the deepest impulses in man
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch…
Professor johnston often said that if you
Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You…
Take from the altars of past fire
Take from the altars of the past the fire – not the ashes. ~Jean JauresSH