Herodoto Historia Quotes

#1. Optimumque est, ut volgo dixere, aliena insania frui. And the best plan is, as the popular saying was, to profit by the folly of others. Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis #Quote by Robert Galbraith

#2. Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time. #Quote by Herodotus

#3. Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame #Quote by James D. Bradley

#4. Jackaby turned to look at me. "What in heaven's name are you doing with my copy of Historia Lycanthropis?" "I - what?" I answered eloquently. "That book. What on earth are you doing with it?" "Well, you had the stick." His eyebrows furrowed. "This is a shillelagh. It was cut from Irish blackthorn by a leprechaun craftsman, cured in the furnace of Gofannon, and imbued with supernatural powers of protection. That" - he gestured to the book - "is a book." "It's heavy, though. #Quote by William Ritter

#5. I felt like the Empress Theodora. Can I get more orifices? I thought. Is that what she meant in the Historia Arcana - not that three isn't enough, but that the three on offer aren't enough to sustain a marriage? #Quote by Nell Zink

#6. Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. #Quote by James D. Bradley

#7. Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country. And it had become the most heavily covered, written-about battle in World War II. #Quote by James D. Bradley

#8. Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator. #Quote by James D. Bradley

#9. Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again. #Quote by Peter Ackroyd

#10. Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next. #Quote by James D. Bradley

#11. Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture. #Quote by Leon Battista Alberti

#12. sin sufrimiento, no hay historia #Quote by Isabel Allende

#13. Later he would declare that not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet. #Quote by James D. Bradley