MISCELLENIOUS:

  • Good friends are good for your health.
  • God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?
  • Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
  • There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
  • The golden rule of work is that the bosses jokes are ALWAYS funny.
  • If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
  • The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
  • Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
Anger:
  • Anger is a bad counselor.
  • Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
  • Never strike your wife - even with a flower.
  • Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
  • Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
  • Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
  • The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
  • To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
  • Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins
  • I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
  • Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
  • I was angry with my friend
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
    I was angry with my foe:
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.
    A Poison Tree.
  • Anger is one letter short of danger.
  • Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
  • Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
  • Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
  • No man can think clearly when his fist are clenched.
  • Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
  • The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
  • Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.

ART:
  • Great art can communicate before it is understood.
  • The difference between mediocrity and excellence is attention to detail.
  • Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
  • Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
  • Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
  • I do not seek. I find.
  • Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
  • The past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
  • The proper school to learn art is not life but art.
  • Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.
  • Lord, let me always desire more then I think I can do.
  • As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
  • An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
  • Precision is not reality.
  • It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
  • The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak
  • The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
  • Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
  • The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.
  • An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
  • Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
  • Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
  • The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
  • I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
BUSINESS:
  • Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing,, layout, processes, and procedures.
  • If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
  • A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
  • The purpose of a business is to create and keep customers.
  • Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind ... more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
  • A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
  • Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself.. anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
  • For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
  • There's no business like show business.
  • Our favourite holding period is forever.
  • Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.
  • A friendship founded on business is a good deal better than a business founded on friendship.
  • Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.
  • Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
  • Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
  • Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
  • All the things I love is what my business is all about.
  • Well, you know, I was a hman being before I became a businessman.
  • Globalization has gone wrong, as it has no rules. Multinationals are almost above the law. They are so huge they are bigger than governments.
COMPUTER:
  • Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
  • The Unix 'file system' Sure it corrupts your data, but look how fast it is !
  • Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
  • You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
  • The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
  • Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
  • Standard are industry's way of codifying obsolescence.
  • Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.
  • Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
  • If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
  • Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.
  • Real programmers use: COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE.
  • As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
  • Your program is sick ! Shoot it and put it out of its memory.
  • AI: anything a computer can't do yet.
  • Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.
  • A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.
  • Whenever you think you have a clever programming trick... forget it !
  • Programming is an art form that fights back.
  • ...The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
  • The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time...
  • To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
  • They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
  • Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
  • People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago.
  • PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.
  • Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
  • User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot.
  • The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.
  • 2 + 2 = 5, for extremely large values of 2.
  • It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
  • Perfection is achieved not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing left to take away.
DEATH:
  • Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
  • Be sure to live your life, because you are a long time dead.
  • There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
  • They give birth astride of a grave. The light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
  • Way I see it, we're all on the Hindenburg, no use fighting over the window seat.
  • The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive.
  • Death is an intellectual matter, but dying is pure pain.
  • One day I'll turn the corner and I won't be ready for it.
  • Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
  • We are afraid to live, but scared to die.
  • If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
  • Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
  • To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
  • What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.
  • A man is not completely born until he is dead.
  • Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.
  • I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
  • Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
  • We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
  • To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
  • One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth.
  • Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
  • There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
  • Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes.
DREAMS:
  • No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
  • Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
  • Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
  • A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
  • The best love affairs are those we never had.
  • If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
  • Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
  • Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
  • Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
  • There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
  • You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
  • Nothing happens unless first a dream.
  • The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
  • Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream.
  • It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
  • For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.
  • Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
  • If you can dream it, you can do it.
  • Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
  • Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  • To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
  • Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
  • The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
  • Dreams are necessary to life.
  • People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want the dream -- what they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive.
  • A dream is an answer to a question we haven't yet learned how to ask.
  • Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
  • Those who lose dreaming are lost.
  • A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened.
  • The dream follows the interpretation.
  • Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
  • Dreams are the touchstone of our character.
  • Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.
  • There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!
  • Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.
  • If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
  • The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
  • Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.
  • Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.
  • You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
EDUCATIONAL:
    • One of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
    • Hanging around until you've caught on.
    • One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
    • Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
    • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
    • If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
    • I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.
    • Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
    • I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
    • Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
    • The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
    • The modern child, when asked what he learned today, replies, "Nothing, but I gained some meaningful insights."
    • No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
    • The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
    • True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.
    • Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of empowering people to take control of their lives.
    • Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
    • Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
    • He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
    • Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
    • If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
    • The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
    • Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
    • Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
    • We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
    • The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.
    • You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
    • He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.
    • Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
    • Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
    • A wise man is one who finally realizes that there are some questions one can ask which may have no answers.
    • You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
    • Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
    • The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
    FRIENDSHIP:
    • Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
    • Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
    • A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
    • A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
    • In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    • Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
    • True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
    • The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
    • Good friends are good for your health.
    • Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
    • Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
    • It's the ones you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter.
    • Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad.
    • A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
    • It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.
    • You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
    • An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
    • Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
    • Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.
    • No man is useless while he has a friend.
    • There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
    • Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
    • You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
    • "Friendship needs no words..."
    • "Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
    • Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must try one hundred.
    • Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
    • "A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
    • Hold a true friend with both your hands.
    • The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
    • "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
    • Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
      Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
      Just walk beside me and be my friend.
    • What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
    • It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
    • "Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
    • Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
    • Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.
    • A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
    • A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
    • Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
    • Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
    • Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.
    • Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together.
    • When you're looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship.
    • It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
    • Nothing is great like friendship on earth, No jewel No pearl has got it's worth. No one except a friend can be trusted, Your life will never ever get rusted.
    • The secret to friendship is being a good listener.
    • Friendship is a special kind of love.
    • True friendship is never serene.
    • Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
    • A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon.
    • Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.
    • Life without friendship is like the sky without sun.
    • A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
    • A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.
    • No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
    • I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
    • That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
    • The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
    • Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
    • True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
    • "One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
    • "Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
    • "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
    • "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
    • "Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
    • "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost"
    • "Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."
    FUNNY:
      • Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
      • The lovely thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25 year old men more.
      • Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
      • There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
      • You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.
      • I had a dream last night, I was eating a ten pound marshmallow. I woke up this morning and the pillow was gone.
      • I slept like a log last night. I woke up in the fireplace.
      • I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
      • How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
      • My neighbor asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.
      • Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
      • Wanna play a joke on your chiropractor? The next time he starts working on you, go limp and soil yourself.
      • Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
      • You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.
      • My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
      • If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that!
      • I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.
      • My wife was fitted with a coil. For about 18 months I hated it! She used to pick up CB signals.
      • A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.
      • What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
      • Humor is just another defense against the universe.
      • When humor goes, there goes civilization
      • Good taste and humour...are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
      • What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
      • I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
      • Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
      • I went to a meeting for premature ejaculators. I left early.
      • Compatible: Your money fits in the salesperson's wallet.
      • Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
      • Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
      • Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.
      • My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
      • I just thought of something funny...your mother.
      • I was so poor growing up ... if I wasn't a boy ...I'd have nothing to play with.
      • A horse may be coaxed to drink, but a pencil must be lead.
      • When on the ladder of success, don't let boys look up your dress!
      • Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full, I say, are you going to drink that?
      • Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.
      • Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
      • Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
      • If the minimum wasn't acceptable it wouldn't be called the minimum.
      • A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
      • I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
      • The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
      • The fact that no one understands you doesn't make you an artist.
      • Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
      • Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
      • My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
      • Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
      • I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
      • Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
      • Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
      HISTORY:
      • The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive.
      • The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.
      • History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.
      • Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
      • There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.
      • Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.
      • A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
      • History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler.
      • History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
      • Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
      • History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
      • History does not unfold: it piles up.
      • Skepticism is history's bedfellow
      • What we take for the history of nature is only the very incomplete history of an instant
      • We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
      • Woe unto the defeated,
        whom history treads
        into the dust.
      • Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.
      • The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
      • Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.
      • History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
      • Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
      • Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
      • Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.
      • Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
      • I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
      • History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.
      • Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.
      • The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
      • History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
      • Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
      • God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
      • Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
      • History never looks like history when you are living through it.
      • We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
      • History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
      • Historians are gossips who tease the dead.
      • The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
      • History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
      • History is a novel for which the people is the author.
      • A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
      • We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
      • All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.
      • The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
      • The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.
      • There is properly no history; only biography.
      • I am not caused by my history--my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.
      • History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstance.
      • History is past politics, and politics present history.
      • A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.
      • Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.
      • History is a great dust heap.
      • Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.
      • Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.