A Quote by Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch.

Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

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Couch Historian Humanity Lays

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Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
April 29, 1907 - March 30, 1987

Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.

Catullus

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Lion Feuchtwanger

When you look at a couch you don't really see the couch. You see the couch as perceived by a state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, "My God, was that an earthquake?" The doctor said this: "Did it feel like an earthquake to you?

Amy Hempel

Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs

Margaret Thatcher

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Seneca the Younger

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

Agatha Christie

David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.

Christopher Hitchens

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

Joseph Conrad

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

Shailer Mathews

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

Hilary Mantel

Politics is my second passion, but as a historian, you have to be genuinely neutral. You have failed in your primary duty as a historian if you are one side or the other.

Amanda Foreman

When a couch potato is sliced up and then deep fried that is couch french fries.

Demetri Martin

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.