History Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that… — Rufi Thorpe Copy Share Image
“If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently.” — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Not that he’d admit that to a single living soul, but he wasn’t such a caveman that he couldn’t admit it to himself. Okay,… — Jules Barnard Copy Share Image
“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“History is funny that way. Things that seem far off and impossible have a way of turning out to be bearer and more possible… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“I learned a long time ago that you have to be able to laugh no matter what. Otherwise you start weeping and never stop.” — Catherine Jones Payne Copy Share Image
“What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no use But only to show his teeth.” — John Webster Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“There is a history that really happened, but none of us will ever know exactly what it was. The other one, the one we… — Marie Jakober Copy Share Image
“And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all… — Alaska by James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image