Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882
‘Santa Filomena' (on Florence Nightingale)
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand
In the great history of the land,
A noble type of good,
Heroic womanhood.
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807- 1882
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Loon Hendrick Willem van 1882-1944
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
MacInnes Colm
At rare moments in history, by a series of accidents never to be repeated, arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount,
hedonistic, mindless, intent upon the glorious physical instant.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800- 1859
Essays ... ‘Sir James Mackintosh'
The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.
Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800- 1859
History of England
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
Marx Carl and Engels Friedrich 1818-1883 and 1820-1895
The Communist Manifesto
The history of all hitherto existing society is
the history of class struggles.
Popper Sir Karl 1902-1994
The Open Society and its Enemies
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history
of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Powell Enoch 1912-1998
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Proverbs and Sayings
Sioux
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
Ralegh Sir Walter 1552-1618
The History of the World
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
Rockefeller Nelson 1908-1979
It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to
have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
Saki (Hector Hugh Monro) 1870-1916
Chronicles of Clovis
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Schiller Friedrich von 1759-1805
‘Resignation'
The world's history is the world's judgement.
Schiller Friedrich von 1759-1805
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions
continually produce the same results.
Seeley Sir John 1834-1895
History is past politics; and politics present history.
Sellar W. C. and Yeatman R. J. 1898-1951 and 1898-1968
1066 and All That ‘Compulsory Preface'
History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
As You Like It
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
everything.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Henry I V, Part 2
There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
The which observed, a man my prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasurèd.
Shaw George Bernard 1859-1950
The Devil's Disciple
SWINDON: What will history say?
BURGOYNE: History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
Skelton Robin
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Stalin Joseph 1879-1953
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class
has vountarily made way for another class.
Still John
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
Taylor A.J.P. 1906-1990
English History 1914-45
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times.
Taylor A.J.P. 1906-1990
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Taylor A.J.P. 1906-1990
‘Mistaken Lessons from the Past'
Like most of those who study history, he [Napoleon III] learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Taylor A.J.P. 1906-1990
The Origins of the Second World War
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
Tebbit Norman 1931-
Youngsters of all races born here should be taught that British history in their history, or they will forever be foreigners holding British
passports, and this kingdom will become a Yugoslavia.
Tocqueville Alexis de 1805-1859
L'Ancien régime
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Toynbee Arnold 1889-1975
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding
with deterioration in quality.
Trotsky Leon 1879-1940
History of the Russian Revolution
You [the Mensheviks] are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from
now on - into the dustbin of history!
Valéry Paul 1871-1945
History is the science of what never happens twice.
Voltaire 1694-1778
L'Ingénu
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Wells H.G. 1866-1946
The Outline of History
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
Intentions ‘The Critic as Artist'
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Wilson Stenator Gordon
(after meeting with IRA)
They told me that history is on their side.