Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it te
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Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles,
Or the eternal pyramids.
The disastrous history of our species indicates t
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The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Without question, the greatest invention in the h
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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
History is philosophy teaching by examples.
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History is philosophy teaching by examples.
A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned u
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
The history of the world is the record of a man i
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The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Those who expect moments of change to be comforta
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Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Correct English is the slang of prigs who write h
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Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
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We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
For the first time in history, sex is more danger
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For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
For the first time in history, sex is more danger
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For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but th
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The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din
Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.
Better than honor and glory, and History's iron p
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Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen,
Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on t
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Hardly a name in profane history is more august t
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Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument!
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