Quotes by Historians - Page 6

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.
Gerald Brenan
Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.
Thomas Carlyle
Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
James Froude
Be a philosopher but amid all your philosophy be still a man.
David Hume
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
Where they make a desert they call it peace.
Tacitus
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.
Frank Underhill
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
Ernest Renan
1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
Carl Sandburg
Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.
Thomas Fuller
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Christopher Lasch
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Bateson
Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.
Bertrand A. Russell
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Thomas Fuller
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller
Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.
Thomas Fuller
Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.
Johann L. von Mosheim
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
Will Durant
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
H.G.Wells
What the orators want in depth they give you in length.
Charles Montesquieu
When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard
To look up and not down To look forward and not back To look out and not in and To lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Thomas Fuller
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.
Thomas Carlyle
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg
There are only three colors ten digits and seven notes it's what we do with them that's important.
Ruth Ross
Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
One hour of life crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
Sir Walter Scott
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth and parts not with it but for the full value.
Lord Clarendon
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.
Thomas P. Murphy
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
Studs Terkel
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
Thomas Fuller
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.
Thomas Fuller
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.
Polybius
Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.
Barbara Aronstein Black
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
Thomas Carlyle
Never mind your happiness do your duty.
Will Durant
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
The image of God cut in ebony.
Thomas Fuller
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
Thomas Fuller
After rain comes fair weather.
James Howell
Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.
Charles Kingsley
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire the second half trimming it.
Ethan Mordden
Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle
It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
Of all the paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path ... a thing which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.
Thomas Carlyle
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Thomas Fuller
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries unite!
Karl Marx
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
Thomas Carlyle