Tuesday 25 May 2021

Some Historical Quotes.

 Interesting tidbits of and about history.


" The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. "
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

" Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. "
Edmund Burke

" If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. "
Rudyard Kipling

" The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. "
Winston Churchill

" History is a guide to navigation in perilous times.
 History is who we are and why we are the way we are. "
David McCullough

" Memory is a tough place. You were there. "
Claudia Rankine

" History is a vast early warning system. "
Norman Cousins

"  Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
 and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. "
Winston Churchill

" The past could be jettisoned...but seeds got carried. "
Joan Didion

" Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended. "
Confucius

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