Admire Quote by Meat Loaf

“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers,…

— Martin Gardner

In a certain sense all men are historians.

— Thomas Carlyle

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Klemens von Metternich

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…

— Jacob Burckhardt

There is a history in all men's lives.

— William Shakespeare

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.

— John Still

“There are only three real men in this world, Amir," he'd say. He'd count them off on his fingers: America the brash saviour, Britain…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Camilo Jose Cela

What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

— Thomas Carlyle

“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true…

— Scott Anderson

I am a fan of history.

— Tom T. Hall