Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Adams

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Henry Adams

Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Henry Adams

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Henry Adams

History is only a value of relation.

Henry Adams

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

Henry A. Kissinger

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Manly Hall

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.

Kevin Starr

All things considered, she would have to be the most conspicuous and influential of the first ladies in the history of the state.

This is one of those times when history looks upon us to see where we are,

This is a longtime Scottsdale tradition. We're trying to keep the sense of our Western history alive.

This is a history we want people to know about.

Jacques Maritain

At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.

Lucan

Not a stone but has its history.

Lord Acton

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

Lord Acton

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Lord Acton

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

Lord Acton

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

John Buchan

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

Bruno Heller

You can't understand that period of history unless it shocks you.

We see a promising pipeline taking shape - one of the most promising pipelines in our company's history.

Mark Twain

Varanasi" is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together

Walter Raleigh

Let valour end my life!

Pierce Brown

When you look at a lot of the military histories, and even modern military history, everyone pretty much refers to each other by nicknames.

Philippa Gregory

I would never lie to anyone about history.

Philippa Gregory

I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

Paul Revere

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

Simon Schama

It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.

Adrian McKinty

'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.