Centaur of Tymfi

It was Greek to me. - William Shakespeare

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

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

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias

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

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. - Watchman Nee

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

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

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

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

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

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C S Lewis

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

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

If we don't know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

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

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