Centaur of Tymfi

It was Greek to me. - William Shakespeare

We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

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

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Lawrence Durrell

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H G Wells

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

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. - Amy Sedaris

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

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

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

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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