On This Site in 1897

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman

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

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. - Ben Casnocha

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

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

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

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

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton

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

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

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

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

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

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth

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

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

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

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. - Yakov Smirnoff

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry

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

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

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

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

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