histories quotes

Historiesmakemenwise; poets, witty; themathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

All true histories contain instruction; though in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

- Anne Bronte« 
  Agnes Grey, ch.1.

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les te  moins se feraient e  gorger. I only believe in histories told by witnesses who would have had their throats slit.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, pt.9, no.593.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass, preface.