World's Oldest Menorah

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Epochodor: The smell of history found at museums - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. - Bob Hope

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg W F Hegel

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C S Lewis

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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