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

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

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

I am the Roman Emperor and am above grammar. - Emperor Sigismund

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

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

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

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

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

History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true. - Leo Tolstoy

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

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

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

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

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. - Ted Koppei

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

Too long they've been gettin' the short end of the totem pole. - Archie Bunker

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth

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

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. - Samuel Butler

Injustice alone can shake down the pillars of the skies, and restore the reign of Chaos and Night. - Horace Mann

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

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

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

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

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

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