History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston ChurchillAmerica is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. -- George ClemenceauHistory repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence DarrowGenerations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert EinsteinHistory is more or less bunk. -- Henry FordThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous HuxleyThe 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 HuxleySay goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy JoelWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. -- Erica JongAnyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. -- Karl MarxHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon BonaparteEvery major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. -- Ayn RandYou can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will RogersThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George SantayanaHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard ShawI once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.
I failed history. -- StingSir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history studentThe sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history studentFor most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia WoolfNothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf