Harry Houdini

We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

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

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

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

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

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

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean Chretien

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. - Ben Casnocha

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

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

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

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

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

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

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

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. - Watchman Nee

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

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

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

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

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C S Lewis

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

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

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

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison