In A Perfect World

New York is a sucked orange. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw

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

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

New York, the nation's thyroid gland. - Christopher Morley

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

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

Toronto: A kind of New York operated by the Swiss - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg W F Hegel

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

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

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

The history of Scotland is one of theology tempered by homicide. - Ivor Brown

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

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

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York. - Grace Kelly

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

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

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

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton

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

I'm out there everyday amongst them, in the smelting pot of New York. - Archie Bunker

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. - Groucho Marx

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

Matt would be fantastic for New York if the Jets were lucky enough to get him. - Donald Trump

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

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

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

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

New York champagne - that's a phony label. They don't grow raisins in New York. - Archie Bunker

While I love shooting in New York City, I look forward to filming season six in Los Angeles. - Donald Trump

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

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

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

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

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

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

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost

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

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

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

The starting line of the New York Marathon is like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport. - Bill Rodgers

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

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

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

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?",
New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt

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

Things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it... is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now? - Paul Harvey