1957 Woolworth Menu

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

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

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

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

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

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

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

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

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 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

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Lawrence Durrell

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

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

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

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

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

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H G Wells

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns

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

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

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

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

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F Kennedy

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

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

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell