Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard M. Nixon

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

Richard M. Nixon

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Richard M. Nixon

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Richard M. Nixon

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Saul Bellow

Well, everybody has a history.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

Samuel Johnson

All history was at first oral.

Samuel Johnson

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

Washington Irving

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

Voltaire

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

William Irwin Thompson

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

William Least Heat-Moon

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

William Kidd

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.

William Manchester

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

Winston Churchill

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

Will Rogers

We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.

Will Rogers

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Will Rogers

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

William E. Gladstone

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

William E. Gladstone

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

Warren E. Burger

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

William Blake

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Salman Rushdie

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Salman Rushdie

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Joseph J. Ellis

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.