Word: History

 From our overstocked archives (2014)

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. -- Mark Twain

A society without a history is like a man without a memory - Unknown

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. - African proverb

History is the sum total of the things they're not telling us. - Don DeLillo

 

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be forever a child -- Cicero

 

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. -- Anonymous

 

An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. - Ambrose Bierce

 

History repeats itself. That's one of the things that's wrong with history -- Clarence Darrow

 

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. -- Voltaire

 

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. -- George Frierich Wilhelm Hegel

 

History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken. -- James Joyce

 

To understand the choices open to people of another time, one must limit oneself to what they knew; see the past in its own clothes, as it were, not in ours. -- Barbara Tuchman

 

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