Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.