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History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
— Washington Irving
When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.
— Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity.
— Benjamin Franklin
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.
— Katherine Anne Porter
If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.
— David McCullough
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.
— Henry Ford
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.
— Albert Einstein
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
— William Hazlitt
Stupid Wars are easy to start but hard to end.
— Ed Strosser
He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
— Dave Malloy
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
— George Bernard Shaw
I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.
— Margaret Bourke-White
No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.
— Will Durant
[...] no man is free of his own history.
— Anita Brookner
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
— John F. Kennedy
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
— Alfred De Vigny
Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.
— Len Deighton
If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.
— Charlton Heston
It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.
— Daniel Quinn
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
— Arthur Koestler
The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.
— Stephen Richards
I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
— Jon Meacham
Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
— Charles Lyell
I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man.
— Douglas Booth
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
— Theodore Roosevelt
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.
— Silvio Berlusconi
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
— William Butler Yeats
How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.
— Frank Herbert
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
— James Harvey Robinson
That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.
— David Eddings
The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.
— Karl Marx
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
— Camilo Jose Cela
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.
— Giambattista Vico
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
— Francois Fenelon
When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.
— Masashi Kishimoto
Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him.
— Theodore Monod
The tattoo of the History is permanent; once a nation or a man is marked by this tattoo, erasing is impossible.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
— Moses Finley
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
— Henry David Thoreau
Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.
— New York Times
Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.
— John Larkins
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
— Christian Adam Ribeiraud
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
— Jose Marti
Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.
— Mitt Romney
The propensity of man, is to invent history, that he may promote his own destiny...
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
The history of man is a must read poetry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.
— Marie Corelli
Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.
— Paul Harvey
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.
— Khuswant Singh
History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth.
— Sebastian Barry
I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.
— Dorothy Parker
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
— Mark Twain
But in the secret history of anger
one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others. — Ilya Kaminsky
one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others. — Ilya Kaminsky
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Man simply invented God in order not to kill himself. That is the summary of universal history down to this moment.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
More blood's been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man.
— Gordon R. Dickson
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.
— Marilyn Monroe