Centaur of Tymfi

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

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

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

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown

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

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

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg W F Hegel

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

The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman

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

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

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

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

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

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

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

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

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

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 charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley