It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
History Quotes
A fool learns from experience. A wise person learns from history.
We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.
I don’t care how experienced one gets working with histoirc documents – there is still something that sends a charge right up your spine… Our trade is preserving the real historic place, in real time, for this and future generations to see and experience – to get a ‘charge,’ if you will. That experience and […]
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
It was during the debate on the Foreign Office vote that Stringham made his great remark that ‘the people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.’ It was not brilliant, but it came in the middle of a dull speech, and the House was quite pleased with it. Old gentlemen with […]
Rhodes, where history lies sleeping.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
This is the lesson that history teaches: history teaches.
