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We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

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

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

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

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

Leftovers: 1. Mull-again stew; 2. Repast history. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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

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

Evolution: One of the stupidest theories of Western life. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

The history of Scotland is one of theology tempered by homicide. - Ivor Brown

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

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

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw

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

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

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

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

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

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

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

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie

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

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 simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison