Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

We take our colors chameleon like from each other.

False modesty is the most decent of all deceptions.

The sunset glow of self possession.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

I wanted to be a part of the Disney history.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

It's a very good historical book about history.

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.