History

17 quotes.

• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

• History is written by the victors.

  Attributed to Winston Churchill

• The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

  Charles Sumner

• History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

  Lord John Whorfin

• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  H. G. Wells

• If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

  Voltaire

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  Anonymous

• 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

• 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, "The Devils of Loudun"

• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

  William H. Borah

• We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

  John F. Kennedy

• We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.

  Anonymous

• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  Napolean Bonaparte

• Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today is a gift. That's why it's called 'the present'.

  Loretta LaRoche

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