Quotes About History

That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation.

We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for I'd that he just whipped out a quarter?

Some refer to it as a cultural Chernobyl. I think of it as a cultural Stalingrad.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.

Sad, but one day our kids will have to visit museums to see what a lady looks like. So if you find one, I beg of you, hold her tight. Yes, if you spot one, good sir, treat her right.

Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bi...es like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.