On This Site in 1897

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. - Harry S Truman

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

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

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

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

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

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

Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

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

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

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

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

The Spanish assailed the unassailable, the Dutch defended the indefensible. - Unknown

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H G Wells

45 caliber German Shmowzer - a 38 caliber German Floogle with a telephonic site - Archie Bunker

History never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference. - Oscar Wilde

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

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

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

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

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F Kennedy

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

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

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