Lament/history

Famous quotes containing the words lament and/or history:

“Every lover’s lament has an element of boasting.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)