Famous quotes by Historians

"He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing"

Herodotus, Historian

"In soft regions are born soft men"

Herodotus, Historian

"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own"

Herodotus, Historian

"I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it"

Herodotus, Historian

"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"I was never less alone than when by myself"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Men trust their ears less than their eyes"

Herodotus, Historian

"To think well, and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing"

Herodotus, Historian

"A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it"

Herodotus, Historian

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before"

Herodotus, Historian

"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen"

Herodotus, Historian

"Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever"

Herodotus, Historian

"Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate"

Herodotus, Historian

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it"

Herodotus, Historian

"How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied"

Herodotus, Historian

"He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold"

Herodotus, Historian

"God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself"

Herodotus, Historian

"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest"

Herodotus, Historian

"Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort, as war itself is worse than peace"

Herodotus, Historian

"But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods"

Herodotus, Historian

"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh"

Herodotus, Historian

"Great things are won by great dangers"

Herodotus, Historian

"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men"

Herodotus, Historian

"I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities, where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break"

Herodotus, Historian

"It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself"

Herodotus, Historian

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks"

Herodotus, Historian

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