The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]

What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]

There is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history, only biography.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.