In A Perfect World

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. - H L Mencken

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another. - Rupert Brooke

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg W F Hegel

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Lawrence Durrell

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

The history of Scotland is one of theology tempered by homicide. - Ivor Brown

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton

I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers. He hates New York. - Steven Wright

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

I'm out there everyday amongst them, in the smelting pot of New York. - Archie Bunker

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. - Groucho Marx

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way. - Donald Trump

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. - Kay Boyle

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?",
New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell

In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. - Isabel Gillies

There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them. - Lyman Abbott