One-Knight Stands

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

There is properly no history; only biography. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

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

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. - Watchman Nee

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

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

Lawyers are like the knights of old. You can use them to plunder other people's stuff. - Gene Gordon

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia

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

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

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

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

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

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 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

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

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

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking

Things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it... is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now? - Paul Harvey