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

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

History is a vast early warning system.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.