It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]

What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Give the historians something to write about.

Give the historians something to write about.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.

Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a read more

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.