Historian Quotes: Timeless Insights and Reflections (Page 6)

"All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end"

Tacitus, Historian

"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all"

Tacitus, Historian

"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man"

Tacitus, Historian

"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty"

Tacitus, Historian

"In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous"

Tacitus, Historian

"A bad peace is even worse than war"

Tacitus, Historian

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise"

Tacitus, Historian

"Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from"

Tacitus, Historian

"Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it"

Tacitus, Historian

"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure"

Tacitus, Historian

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again"

Tacitus, Historian

"It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks"

Miriam Beard, Historian

"When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"The smaller the function, the greater the management"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"It is better to be a has-been than a never-was"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Expenditures rise to meet income"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn"

C. Northcote Parkinson, Historian

"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate"

Sallust, Historian

"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural"

Sallust, Historian

"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense"

Sallust, Historian

"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing"

Sallust, Historian

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