Subject: Time » History (Page 3)

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

History Murphy’s Laws Time

Historical fancy is more persistent than historical fact.

History Murphy’s Laws

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

Definitions History Occupations Time

All modern men are descended from a wormlike creature… but it shows more on some people.

(1884 – 1949) American humorist & literary critic
History People Time

[Paul Revere] did warn the British… and I know my American history.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author
History Misspokements

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another.

(1887 – 1915) English poet
History Occupations Time

History would be an excellent thing, if only it were true.

(1828 – 1910) Russian writer
History Intelligence Time

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.

(1770 – 1831) German philosopher
History Time

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
History Misspokements Time

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
History Time

If we really learned from our past mistakes, most of us would never get out of bed in the morning.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Education History Learning Mistakes

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

(1876 – 1967) German statesman
History Time

What year did Jesus think it was?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
History Time

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

American business woman & magazine editor
History 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

He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!

(1898 – 1978) Israeli prime minister
History People Situations

It’s a very good historical book about history.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Books Communication History Misspokements

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what man does with what happens to him.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
History Intelligence

History is more or less bunk.

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist
History Time

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

(1919 – ) American sportswriter
History Sports Time

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