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History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
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History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.- Max Beerbohm
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History does not unfold: it piles up.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.- Karl Marx
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History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
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History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created.
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.- O. W. Holmes, Jr.
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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.
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History in our kind of society is not a luxury but a necessity.- Patrick Hazard
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History is a bath of blood.
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History is a better guide than good intentions.
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History is a confused heap of facts.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.- A. L. Rowse
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History is a great dust heap.
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History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,–Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs.
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