Quotes About History

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

The past is the father of the present.

Archaeologists only look at what lies beneath their feet. The sky and the heavens don't exist for them.

Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity.

We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.

Profesi suami yang paling baik bagi wanita adalah arkeolog. Karena semakin tua si wanita, suami akan semakin tertarik kepadanya.

I think I said that every generation had its weaklings--that that was one of the penalties of greatness--but that their failings were seldom remembered by posterity.

The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting the true perspective, of seeing things in proportion.

In spite of its new gleaming paint, its alterations, it was in essence a tired old Victorian mansion. "I was wise to go," thought Mrs. Bantry. "Houses are like everything else. There comes a time when they've just had their day. This has had its day.

Breakfast with the Borgias.

The history of the marriage was short and painful. To put it bluntly, Mrs Ackroyd was a dipsomaniac. She succeeded in drinking herself into her grave four years after her marriage.

What," asked Dr. Constantine with interest, "does a pukka sahib mean?" "It means," said Poirot, "that Miss Debenham's father and brothers were at the same kind of school as Colonel Arbuthnot.

To a historian that always is a difficulty. At what point in history does one particular portion of history begin

But to everything that happens there has to be a past. A past which is by now incorporated in today, but which existed yesterday or last month or last year. The present is nearly always rooted in the past.

The day of the Old Men is over," said Tommy, waving his hand. "Who caused the war? The Old Men. Who is responsible for the present state of unemployment? The Old Men. Who is responsible for every single rotten thing that has happened? Again I say, the Old Men!

It is about ten or fifteen years ago now, and happily it is all over and done with, and everyone has forgotten about it. People's memories are very short—a lucky thing, I always think.

It seems sometimes, sir, as though the past isn't the past

It was all a long time ago…

slack time. The war was

The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

The past is the father of the present," said Poirot sententiously. He

The past is sometimes a very good place to live

Pottery - the whole romance of humanity can be expressed in terms of poetry.