Quotes on history

“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”

Mark Twain
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“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”

Mark Twain
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“Imagination labors best in distant fields.”

Shakespeare
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“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”

Shakespeare
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“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

Shakespeare
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“Necessity knows no law.”

Mark Twain
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“Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.”

Socrates
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“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

Theodore Roosevelt
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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”

Theodore Roosevelt
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