Subject: Time » History

What is history but a set of lies agreed upon.

(1769 – 1821) French general & politician
History Time

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

(1953 – ) comedian & actor
Accidents Autos History Time Truth

When I was at school I was great at history… oh wait, no I wasn't.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
Education History Learning Time

We haven't seen that kind of violence in the name of religion in this country since we got here!'

American stand-up comedian
America History Religion Time

I couldn’t care less about all those fiction stories about what happened in the year 1500 or 1600. Half of them aren’t even true.

professional golfer
History Misspokements Time

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

(1953 – ) comedian & actor
Accidents Autos History

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
America History Misspokements Places

Brought up in the provinces in the forties and fifties one learned early the valuable lesson that life is generally something that happens elsewhere.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright
History Time

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian
History Past Time

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

(1964 – ) Canadian writer & novelist
America Canada History People Places

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

(1956 – ) American entertainer & comedian
Education History School Time

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

(1930 – ) economist, social commentator & author
History Situations

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

(1889 – 1944) English historian
History Occupations Time

Historians: People who won’t let bygones be bygones.

Definitions History Occupations Time

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter
History Sports Time

I grew up in Europe… where the history comes from.

(1962 – ) English stand-up comedian & actor
History Places Time

Worrying about the future is a thing of the past.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign
Emotions Future History Time

Historical fancy is more persistent than historical fact.

History Murphy’s Laws

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

History Murphy’s Laws Time

 It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

History Memory Murphy’s Laws

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
Beliefs God History Time