Quotes by Authors - Page 154

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
Dean William R. Inge
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.
Thomas Fuller
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Billy Graham
Every man is more than just himself he also represents the unique the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect only once in this way and never again.
Hermann Hesse
That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.
Anthony Storr
The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.
John F Kennedy
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
John Steinbeck
Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
Wernher von Braun
There is a secret person undamaged in every individual.
Paul Shepard
Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.
William Saroyan
Man is a wanting animal - as soon as one of his needs is satisfied another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.
Douglas McGregor
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner
Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
James Baldwin
Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself the maker of his life his reward his punishment.
Anonymous
The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.
Kenneth Grahame
A human being isn't an orchid he must draw something from the soil he grows in.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
Men are cruel but man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore
There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo Sapiens.
Desmond Morris
The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
Dean William R. Inge
Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
Dean William R. Inge
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
George Orwell
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.
Finley Peter Dunne
Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.
Lord Chesterfield
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
Virginia Woolf
Home is where the heart is.
Pliny
Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past And each heart is whispering "Home Home at last!"
Thomas Hood
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Anonymous
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
George Norman Douglas
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.
Anonymous
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
John Still
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
T.S Eliot
History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.
John Barth
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
Ronald Wright
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Louis Fischer
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Hendrik Willem van Loon
I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.
Stephen Leacock
Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.
Thomas H. Raddall
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.
John W. Gardner
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 timid among us.
E.M. Forster
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
Samuel Butler
The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.
Anonymous
History doesn't pass the dishes again.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Saki
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
Dean William R. Inge
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
W.H. Auden
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
John Fowles
History is a vast early warning system.
Norman Cousins
After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
Adolf Hitler
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.
E.M. Forster
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving
No man is a hero to his own wife no woman is a wife to her own hero.
Anonymous
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler