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136 quotesHistory is a better guide than good intentions.
History and Historians
Jeane Kirkpatrick
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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
War
Arthur Koestler
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In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Louis Kronenberger
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
Image
Milan Kundera
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The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Oppression
Meridel Le Sueur
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
History and Historians
Abraham Lincoln
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Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Newspapers
Norman Mailer
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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Habit
Horace Mann
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If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
Jokes and Jokers
Groucho Marx
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
History and Historians
Karl Marx
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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Life and Living
Mary Mccarthy
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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Philosophers and Philosophy
H. L. Mencken
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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Biography
George Meredith
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
History and Historians
Klemens Von Metternich
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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Humankind
Ludwig Von Mises
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History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.
Scandal
Alex Mitchell
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Life is too short for a long story.
Anecdotes
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Blood
Benito Mussolini
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Fascism
Benito Mussolini
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The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Peace
Richard M. Nixon
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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Competition
Al Oerter
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Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
Speakers and Speaking
Tom Ogden
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Gossip
Ouida
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry and Poets
Plato
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
Photography
Eliot Porter
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun