Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini stepping into a crate to be lowered into New York Harbor
Houdini escape stunt on July 7, 1912
QuotaBillsHistory 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