History Quote Generator

“ History is a race between education and catastrophe. ”

~H. G. Wells

“ The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. ”

~Henry Louis Gates

“ No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. ”

~P. J. O'Rourke

“ One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history. ”

~P. J. O'Rourke

“ Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ”

~Francis Bacon

“ Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. ”

~Arthur Schopenhauer