On This Site in 1897

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Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

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

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

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another. - Rupert Brooke

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

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

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money. - Bob Hope

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

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

Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

Conjunctivitis dot com ... now there's a site for sore eyes. - Tim Vine

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

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

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

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

The Spanish assailed the unassailable, the Dutch defended the indefensible. - Unknown

45 caliber German Shmowzer - a 38 caliber German Floogle with a telephonic site - Archie Bunker

I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. - Sydney Harris

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

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

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

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. - Vincent Canby

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

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

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

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours. - Milton Berle

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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