Free history sayings, quotes and quotations
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
~history of sayings by Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
~inspirational sayings about Sex quotes by H.G. Wells, 1935
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
~history quotes by Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)
We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
~famous quotes about Generations by From the movie Fight Club, about Generation X
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
~history sayings by Charles de Gaulle
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?
~history of sayings by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~history quotes by H.G. Wells, The Outline of History
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second gradeBut considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose
~famous quotes about Thanksgiving Day by Ellen Orleans
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
~history sayings by Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
~history of sayings by Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.
~history quotes by Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
~famous quotes about History by Michel de Montaigne, translated
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
~history sayings by Katharine Anthony
And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.
~history of sayings by Dave Barry
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
~good sayings about Medical by Martin H. Fischer
Venus favors the bold.
~history quotes by Ovid
Taxes: Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension.
~motivational quotes about Taxes sayings by Author Unknown
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
~history sayings by H. Beerbohm-Tree
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
~history of sayings by Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender
Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
~good sayings about Sex by Clare Booth Luce
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other sins are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.)
~history quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
~motivational quotes about Carpe Diem sayings by Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939
All skills are difficult before they’re easy. To master s skill we must become its slave.
~history sayings by
Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock
~history of sayings by Author Unknown
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money
~good sayings about Money by Henny Youngman
[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
~history quotes by George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States, 1921
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie
~motivational quotes about Mothers Day sayings by Tenneva Jordan
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
~history sayings by Woody Allen
To criticize another race or another natural creation is to criticize god who made them.
~history of sayings by
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
~good sayings about Gardens by Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
~history quotes by Lucimar Santos de Lima
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
~motivational quotes about Jobs sayings by Dean Acheson
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
~history sayings by Kahlil Gibran
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