Famous Quotes

"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."

Jean Anouilh on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Jean Anouilh

• "Things are beautiful if you love them."

• "Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."

• "Things are beautiful if you love them."

• "Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God."

• "Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."