History Quotes

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Bill Maher

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Richard M. Nixon

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

James Lovelock

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Vladimir Lenin

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

Carter G. Woodson

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Quentin Tarantino

At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !

Rodney Dangerfield

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Robert Frost

Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another.

Terry Pratchett

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

Francois Hollande

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems. I know a lot of people who feel they have an identity only when they're talking about their problems. That way, they exist, because their problems are linked to what they judge to be their history.

Paulo Coelho

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past.

Karl Marx, Letter to Joseph Wede

It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.

Rodney Dangerfield

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Epil

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory.

Steve Maraboli

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Stefan Zweig