"History's just one darn thing after another...." - Quote by Henry Ford
History's just one darn thing after another.
More by Henry Ford
“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow”
“One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.”
“What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.”
More on History
“The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.”
“No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.”
“It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.”
More on Simplicity
“He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.”
“I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.”
“Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.”