Quotes About History

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Test Cricket is not a light-hearted business, especially that between England and Australia.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

The Holocaust industry has always been bankrupt. What remains is to openly declare it so. The time is long past to put it out of business.

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.