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History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

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

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

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

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

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

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. - Ben Casnocha

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

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

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

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

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

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

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

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

History never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

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

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

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

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

Dogs laugh, but the laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. - Max Eastman

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

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