Quotes About History Repeat Itself

#1. Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Julian Barnes

#2. We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.

Barbara Lee

#3. History does not repeat itself. It is men who never learned from the past who repeat history.

Rei Lemuel Crizaldo

#4. If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.

Gavin Mills

#5. If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Terry Venables

#6. History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes.

Adam Smith

#7. History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

Rick Perlstein

#8. History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880]

Max Beerbohm

#9. Why did I need to learn history anyway when it was just going to repeat itself?

J.L. Weil

#10. History has to repeat itself," said Woody Allen, "because nobody was listening the first time around.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#11. History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

Khalil Gibran

#12. In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

Rex Reed

#13. History tended to repeat itself.
Why should her past be any different?

Kayla Krantz

#14. As we were told about others, so others will be told about us. that is "HISTORY". and the most painfull thing about it is that, it does not repeat itself. it comes onece in life and never again.

Hamzat Haruna Ribah

#15. History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

George Eliot

#16. History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Max Beerbohm

#17. Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

#18. History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

John W. Campbell Jr.

#19. I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

Antony Beevor

#20. History does not repeat itself, but it rhyme.

Joseph Anthony

#21. Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

Mae West

#22. Be not afraid, for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.

Alfred North Whitehead

#24. Note: If you met your wife while she was married to another man, history is bound to repeat itself.

Jim Gaffigan

#25. Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

J. D. Hayworth

#26. History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Anthony Robbins

#27. Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.

Wynne McLaughlin

#28. But history does repeat itself; that is the comedy and the crime of history. Men learn nothing. Times change. Scenes change. Names change. But passions are the same.

Carlos Fuentes

#29. History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme.

Paul Kriwaczek

#30. History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

Stephen King

#31. We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats itself) or James McCourt (history repeats itself like hiccups). Beirutis

Rabih Alameddine

#32. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.

Dan Abnett

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

Gertrude Stein