On This Site in 1897

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. - Ted Koppei

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

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

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

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

Washington, D.C.: Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. - Frank Dane

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

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

In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt

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

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours. - Milton Berle

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

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

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

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

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

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

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

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

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush

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