Book Quote by Eugenio Montale

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

— Camilo Jose Cela

There is a history in all men's lives.

— William Shakespeare

The men who make history have not time to write it.

— Klemens von Metternich

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

— A. J. P. Taylor

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the…

— Stephen Crane

What man is, only history tells.

— George Mosse

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

— Andrew Davidson

Not the existence of man, but the action of man sets the wheel of history of the struggle in motion

— Anonymous

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --”

— Abba Eban

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

— Oscar Wilde

“The history of the world is but a biography of great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle