Quotes About History

Until the first antibiotics, medicine remained the oldest art. It had yet to become, in Thomas's words, the "youngest science.

Many more learned their science in the most practical way: as apprentices to artisans who were more likely to be literate than ever before in history.

A basic rule of history is that the inevitable eventually happens.

Prior to the 1950's, very few people had ever heard of a good witch. The term was oxymoronic, like calling someone an evil saint.

A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of timeAnd razure of oblivion.

A very ancient and fish-like smell.

What's past is prologue.

I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.

That England, that was wont to conquer others,Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

They say miracles are past.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.

Duke: And what's her history?Viola: A blank, my lord. She never told her love,But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought,And with a green and yellow melancholy,She sat like Patience on a monument,Smiling at grief.

There is a history in all men's lives.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rime.

Or may we cramWithin this wooden O the very casquesThat did affright the air at Agincourt?

Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide archOf the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space.Kingdoms are clay.

This news is old enough, yet it is every day's news.

O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,That I am meek and gentle with these butchers;Thou art the ruins of the noblest manThat ever lived in the tide of times.

This day is call'd the feast of Crispian:He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd.And rouse him at the name of Crispian.

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.

Every part about you blasted with antiquity.

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.