But That Was Yesterday

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

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

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

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

I support recycling. I wore this yesterday. - Unknown

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. - H G Wells

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

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

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

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

Leftovers: 1. Mull-again stew; 2. Repast history. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

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

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

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

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

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. - John Burroughs

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

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

The history of Scotland is one of theology tempered by homicide. - Ivor Brown

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

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

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

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw

Time and words can't be recalled, even if it was only yesterday. - Estonian Proverb

All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias

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

Good fishing is just a matter of timing. You have to get there yesterday. - Milton Berle

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. - Eskimo Proverb

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon. - Charles M. Schulz

I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, if you do it right today. - Sheldon S. Maye

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. - Peter Drucker

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

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday. - Zig Ziglar

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow. - Toni Morrison

Yesterday was not your defining moment. The calendar moved forward; why not you? - Steve Maraboli

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. - John Guare

The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday. - Unknown

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut

Be open to learning new lessons even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday. - Ellen Degeners

History never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference. - Oscar Wilde

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. - Rosemonde Gerard

Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone... when I came back the entire area was missing. - Steven Wright

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

It's difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope for tomorrow. - Robert H. Goddard

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi

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

A library should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. - Norman Cousins

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. - Steven Wright

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

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

If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. - Unknown

Halloween is a day in which some people choose to wear a mask, while others finally feel safe to take theirs off. - Steve Maraboli

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have survived the storm of yesterday and that has made me so grateful for today. - Unknown

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart

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

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

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

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

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

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

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 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

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