History Quotes

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Walt Whitman

For four - Fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

J. W. Schopf

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

Dwight David Eisenhowe

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon

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

Voltaire

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce