Famous Quotes

"My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading."

Thomas Hardy on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Thomas Hardy

• "The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job."

• "If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

• "Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."

• "Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."

• "Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."