“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“History repeats itself; historians repeat each other”
Phillip Guedala
“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter”
African Proverb
“To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.”
Oscar Wilde
“Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.”
George W. Bush
“But then the Roman Empire fell like this- "oh shit". And we went intowhat the historians called the Stupid Fucker period. Where everyonewas going -"er, I dunno. Is that a Roman road? Can we eat it?" Thenthere was the dark Ages. " I can't even see you! Where are you?"”
Eddie Izzard
