History Quotes

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

Kedar Joshi

My friends and I play a new version of Russian roulette, we pass around six girls and one of them has V.D.

Rodney Dangerfield

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

Morgan Freeman

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

George H. W. Bush

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

A. N. Wilson

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Evita Peron

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

Bertrand Russell

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Dan Rather

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Hillary Clinton

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Augustine Birrell

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Sarah Bernhardt

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

Nancy Pelosi

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

Sandra Day O'Connor

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Eric Alterman

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Plutarch

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

Claude Vorilhon

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Howard Nemerov