On This Site in 1897

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

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

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

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. - Harry S Truman

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. - Ted Koppei

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman

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

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

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

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

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

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

History never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

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

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

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

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers