Harry Houdini

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

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

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

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Epochodor: The smell of history found at museums - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

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

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

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

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

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

There has never been a better time in history to be an environmental radiation researcher. - Steven Magee

History never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference. - Oscar Wilde

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

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

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

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

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

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

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

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson