On This Site in 1897

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.' - Tom Douglas

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias

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

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

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

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

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

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

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

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh. - Conan O'Brien

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

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? - Joe Wurzelbacher

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

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

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