How often I ponder on the forbidden privilege of sitting down and quietly chatting for hours with history’s wisest and most interesting people.

Given a quiet room in an isolated rustic cottage with bay windows looking out on a bucolic scene who would you choose to spend a quiet summer’s evening with?

Given the daunting choice of people who over centuries changed history the question itself is tantalising. Besides, who you choose says much about you too.

Being a traveller, I would shortlist David Livingstone and as a historian King Edward VIII and Napoleon Bonaparte. As a writer, an evening with Charles Dickens has much appeal. I can also imagine a fireside chat to understand the motivation of emperors and revolutionaries better.

Great Sayings and Stories of History will help you to focus your mind on your choice of table talk companion.

Over a long and colourful life, Michael Walsh the journalist, author and poet studiously collected and saved many hundreds of quotable quotes.

However, reaching his sunset years he was faced with a dilemma; what to do with his unique collection of wise observations from history’s wisest me and women?

Would these quotations, observations, warnings and prophecies be lost to posterity and perhaps never again be discovered? Who then to teach, inspire and guide future generations?

If you are looking for a gift for relatives and friends, a thank you, or a keepsake which will be constantly opened and treasured we recommend GREAT SAYINGS AND STORIES OF HISTORY compiled by Michael Walsh.

MICHAEL WALSH (LEFT): Liverpool-born into an Irish family of non-conformist literati drawn to their kind of achieving free thinkers Michael Walsh can best be described as being his own man.

A thoughtful world traveller comfortable in the company of non-judgemental humanity the award-winning writer’s passage of mortality is marked by respect and controversy.

The inkwell of his remarkable pen is his passion for self-expression without boundaries. Is this why Michael Walsh was destined to be the most successful multi-topic author of hundreds of newspaper columns and over 70 book titles? PLEASE SHARE OUR BOOK REVIEWS.

 GREAT SAYINGS OF HISTORY Michael Walsh Compilation. A quiet room in a rustic cottage overlooking a pastoral scene who would you choose as your soul companion? Be inspired by hundreds of wise and memorable comments uttered by history’s greatest thinkers. 

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