Harry Houdini

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

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

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

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

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

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

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

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

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A library should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. - Norman Cousins

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

I not only knew Houdini, but we had a very lovely relationship. I really though we had something going, and then the son of a gun disappeared. - Betty White

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