One-Knight Stands

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

There is properly no history; only biography. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw

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

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. - Peter Drucker

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

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

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

Armor: 1. A knight gown; 2. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

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

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

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