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History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.

History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.

by Leo Tolstoy Found in: History Quotes,
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or read more

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.

by John F. Kennedy Found in: History Quotes,
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

by John Berger Found in: History Quotes,
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In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: History Quotes,
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

by Samuel Butler Found in: History Quotes,
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Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.

Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.

by Edward Finlason Found in: History Quotes,
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men read more

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

by Richard M. Nixon Found in: History Quotes,
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The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the read more

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

by Ashurnasirpal Found in: History Quotes,
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Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

by Blaise Pascal Found in: History Quotes,
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