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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
— H.L. Mencken
The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.
— John Quincy Adams
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable ...
— Edward Gibbon
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
— Alain De Botton
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
— Hampton Sides
The history of the mind is not a linear history. Each epoch has its "Age of Reason" and its "Fall." The
— John Knight Lundwall
How few women have any history after the age of thirty!
— Elizabeth Oakes Smith
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.
— Robert Kiyosaki
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
— Jacob Burckhardt
[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
— Benito Mussolini
The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.
— Jessie Burton
If one day equaled the age of the universe, all of recorded history would be no more than ten seconds.
— Jenny Offill
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
— Nick Bilton
If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .
— David Selbourne
We must be authors of the history of our age.
— Madeleine Albright
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music ... and of aviation.
— Tom Stoppard
We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.
— Winifred Gerin
I was born in the age of "alas".
— Pat Conroy
History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong.
— Albert Pollard
In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.
— Ernst T. Krebs
What is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.
— George Orwell
Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.
— Andrei Cherny