God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more t...
The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not...
History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Most history is a record of the triumphs disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world...
History is a vast early warning system.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.