Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Well behaved women seldom make history.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

Those who are making history seldom have time to record it.

I wish to make it clear that ‘history’ in the sense in which most people speak of it simply does not exist; and this is at least one reason why I say that it has no meaning.

While history might be full of exemplary fathers, recorded history is not where to find them.

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

We don’t keep records of our history and this is a sad reality of who we are.

There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

History has no meaning.

The happiest peoples, it is said, are those which have no history. Those who have a history, those who have made history seem only to have emphasized through their accomplishments the eternality of struggle. These disappear too eventually, just as those who made no effort, who were content to merely live and enjoy.

History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.