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History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

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

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Epochodor: The smell of history found at museums - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

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

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

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. - Ben Casnocha

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

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

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

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

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

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

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

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

My physician has become warden of my medically imprisoned body, pharmaceuticals the bars on my cell. - Grey E. Livingston

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C S Lewis

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

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

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it... is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now? - Paul Harvey