Quotes About History

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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Lawrence J. Peter

"All the size of John's following, but with half the stench!” one man, a tax collector, shouted to the amusement of the table. “How can that be?” asked one of the centurions, reclining at ease and holding out his cup to be filled. “John spent all his time dumping his followers into the river."

Celine T

Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.

Jeffrey Fry

In the history of man, there has been and always will be more horses' asses than horses.

Jeffrey Fry

History never repeats itself, as most people fear. People usually repeat history.

Divine Chikobvu

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce

History repeats itself. Somebody says this. History throws its shadows over the beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters. History is a little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of. I know history. There are many names in history but none of them are ours.

Richard Siken

Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again.

Woody Allen

Where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it 'history.'

The Wizard