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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
-African Proverb
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We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.
-Joseph Addison
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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
-George Ade
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History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.
-Konrad Adenauer
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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.
-Francis Bacon
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
-Francis Bacon
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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.
-James Baldwin
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History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other.
-Arthur Balfour
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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that
-Julian Barnes
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The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
-Charles Austin Beard
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
-Max Beerbohm
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What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again... Ecclesiastes 1:9
-Bible
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An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
-Otto von Bismarck
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It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.
-Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)
The Consolation of Philosophy
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
-Edmund Burke
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The Thames is liquid history.
-John Burns
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God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
-Samuel Butler
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History is the devil's scripture.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
-Albert Camus
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History is the distillation of rumor.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Books about History
