On This Site in 1897

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

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

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

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

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

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley