On This Site in 1897

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde

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

Leftovers: 1. Mull-again stew; 2. Repast history. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The main result of feminism has been the Dutch Treat. - Nora Ephron

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

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

History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true. - Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

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

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. - Peter Drucker

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

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

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. - Stephen Covey

If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. - Donald Trump

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

Webnesia: The act of loading a web browser, then instantly forgetting the site you were going to visit - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? - Joe Wurzelbacher

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

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

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