On This Site in 1897

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

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

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

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

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

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

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

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

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

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

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

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

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

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

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

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

If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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