Quotes About History

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

When did one man ever civilize a people?

Man is remembered by his deeds.

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

It is the doom of men that they forget.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.