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

Well-behaved women never make history. - Maria Shriver

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

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

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

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. - H L Mencken

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

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

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

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

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

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. - Oscar Wilde

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. - Bette Midler

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

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. - Groucho Marx

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

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

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

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

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

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

If we don't know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush

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