Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. George Bernard Shaw
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
