Don't Believe Everything You Read

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain

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

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

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

For business, our Internet love affair was a gift from the gods. - Gary Vaynerchuk

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

The internet turns 30 minutes of homework into 2 hours of homework. - Unknown

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

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

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

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive. - Joshua Bruns

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

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. - Penn Jillette

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

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

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media. But the Internet is becoming the umbrella. - Larry Weber

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

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

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell