History Quotes

Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.

18227 quotes

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"History repeats because we don't pay attention the first time."
Redd Foxx
R
"Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it."
Redd Foxx
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce."
Spike Milligan
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Spike Milligan
B
"Never forget where you came from."
Bernie Mac
"History repeats itself to those who do not learn from it."
Peter Sellers
T
"We cannot change the past, only learn from it"
Tony Hancock
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"History shows us that today's scandal is tomorrow's punchline."
Frankie Howerd
R
"History repeats itself because people don't pay attention the first time."
Redd Foxx
T
"History repeats itself because we don't learn from it."
Terry Gilliam
T
"History is written by the victors, but understood by the wise."
Terry Gilliam
E
"History teaches us to expect the unexpected"
Eric Idle
T
"History repeats itself because nobody bothered to read it the first time."
Tony Hancock
R
"History repeats itself to those who refuse to learn from it."
Redd Foxx
F
"History teaches us that human nature rarely changes."
Frankie Howerd
"History is just one catastrophe after another, but we keep going anyway."
Spike Milligan
T
"History repeats itself because we never really learn from it."
Terry Gilliam
"History repeats itself because we keep casting the same actors in new plays."
Peter Sellers
"History is just yesterday's gossip dressed up as fact."
Peter Sellers
J
"One thing we have learned from history is that people don't learn from history."
John Cleese
J
"If you want to understand any problem in America, you need to understand its history."
John Cleese
J
"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
John Cleese
F
"History repeats itself until we finally learn the lesson."
Frankie Howerd
T
"History repeats itself because people never learn, just take new forms of the same mistakes"
Tony Hancock
E
"History teaches us that absurdity is more common than we'd like to admit."
Eric Idle
E
"Every generation thinks they're smarter than the last one."
Eric Idle
E
"History doesn't repeat, but it definitely rhymes."
Eric Idle
R
"History repeats itself because nobody was listening the first time."
Redd Foxx
T
"Memory is a story we tell ourselves about the past, not the past itself."
Terry Gilliam
T
"The future is just the past with different costumes on."
Terry Gilliam