“Unbeknownst to most historians, Einstein started down the road of professional basketball before an ankle injury diverted him to science”
Gary Larson
“We're going to write a whole new chapter for political science books that historians and lawyers can study for years to come.”
Linda Walker
“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter”
African Proverb
“History repeats itself; historians repeat each other”
Phillip Guedala
“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
“I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.”
Albert Camus