Don't Believe Everything You Read

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

Oh, so they have internet on computers now! - Homer Simpson

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

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow

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 may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain

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

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

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

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

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

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet. - Santosh Kalwar

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

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

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

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

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

The Internet has turned what used to be a controlled, one-way message into a real-time dialogue with millions. - Danielle Sacks

Word-of-mouth marketing has always been important. Today, it's more important than ever because of the Internet. - Newt Barrett

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

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

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley