On This Site in 1897

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

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

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

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

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

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. - H L Mencken

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman

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

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. - Sydney Harris

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia

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

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

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

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost

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

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh. - Conan O'Brien

Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher

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

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