“The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.” MenUseWisdomNextHistoryForeverWiseMilitaryCleverNext Time Author:Michael Howard
“Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.” HistoryForeverHumourHistoricalUselessRepublicShort Time Author:Scipio Africanus
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” WarTimePoliticsPowerfulHistoryForeverGloryHumorousDignityWittyFleetingObscurityFleeting MomentsHistorical MilitaryPolitics TodayFleeting Time Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.” ThinkingLooksHeartUseHistoryForeverPraiseDelightLook UpDescendantsArt HistoryPraise And Thanksgiving Author:John Ruskin
“I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.” ThinkingMenMindUseTogetherCoursesNextHistoryForeverWiseMilitaryDecadesCleverContradictionApologyNext TimeEssaysInconsistency Author:Michael Howard
“It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?” YearsMindIdeasScienceTermNatureHistoryMillionsForeverDoubtHard WorkRevolutionBearsEternalMouthsEternityDifficultyInstantProportionRemarkableRejectsCyclesContemplatingDefinitePettyHesitationChronicles Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope
“An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.” GivingYearsArtPhilosophyJoyHistoryForeverActivityFortunePossessionAspirationEstatesRevenue Book:Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)