On This Site in 1897

World History: Scrap book - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

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

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

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

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

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

When they asked George Washington for his ID, he just took out a quarter. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth

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

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. - Yakov Smirnoff

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

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

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

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

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

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

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking