Pelkma Quotes & Sayings

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion. — William Congreve

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium experiment that constant to the past. The sample size of human history is one. — Niall Ferguson

We become what we behold. — William Blake

So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. — William Shakespeare

Ignominy thirsts for respect. — Victor Hugo