On This Site in 1897

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

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

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

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

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

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

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean Chretien

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

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

Conjunctivitis dot com ... now there's a site for sore eyes. - Tim Vine

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. - Watchman Nee

There has never been a better time in history to be an environmental radiation researcher. - Steven Magee

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

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

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

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

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

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

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

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