History Quotes

After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, it makes you wonder about history.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest for his daily bread and butter.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

A fool learns from experience. A wise person learns from history.

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells “Can’t you remember anything I told you?!” and lets fly with a club.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

History is merely gossip.

History is written by people who attend meetings, and stay until the end, and keep the minutes.