Subject: Time » History

There’s an old saying about those who forget history… I don’t remember it, but it’s good.

(1964 – ) comedian, political satirist, writer & television host

It’s a very good historical book about history.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. Well, I didn't live in this century.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

(1948 – ) English novelist

History doesn't repeat itself – historians merely repeat each other.

Historian: An editor of yesterday’s news.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

(1930 – ) economist, social commentator & author

The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs.  You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them.  Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve.  No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

American baseball player

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

(1918 – 2009) radio broadcaster

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

I hated Geography… because it’s just like History… except without people and dates.

(1956 – ) American entertainer & comedian

After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an automobile accident, you begin to worry about history.

(1953 – ) comedian & actor

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another.

(1887 – 1915) English poet

History does not repeat itself; historians simply repeat each other.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

(1882 – 1941) English novelist, essayist, publisher & feminist

Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

That’s history; I say history because it happened in the past.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

American History Is A Thing of the Past