History Quote by Mahendra Jakhar

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

— Mark Twain

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when…

— James Bryan Smith

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

“A later age looks back with nostalgia at an earlier one and depicts it in terms of ideals and activities now receding.”

— Romila Thapar

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

“Age is merely mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain”

— Elizabeth Egerton Wilder

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”

— Francis Bacon

“History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.”

— Steven J. Carroll

“old men are the best contenders in telling old stories”

— kwame grundow

“History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future,” -105”

— Ahmad Fuadi

“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life…

— Henry David Thoreau