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

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

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

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

The cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. - Jonathan Swift

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

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

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

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

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

Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

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

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

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. - Cicero

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

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

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

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne

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

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

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. - Flip Wilson

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

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

I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet. - Robertson Davies

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. - Kay Boyle