Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, recovery, success and/or disaster:
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.”
—Chinese proverb.