To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history -Clifton Fadiman
History Quotes
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. -Marcus Aurelius
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. -Ayn Rand
If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. -Michael Crichton
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. -Gustave Flaubert