About history..........

"The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter."
-Hendrik Willem van Loon

"The history of the great events of this world are scarcely more that the history of crimes."
-Voltaire

"Human history is in essence a history of ideas."
-H.G. Wells

"History is a bath of blood."
-William James

"History is the crystallisation of popular beliefs."
-Donn Piatt

"History is an accumulation of errors."
-Norman Cousins

"A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents."
-Richard Reeves

"History is only a confused heap of facts."
-Lord Chesterfield

"History is a post-mortem examination.  It tells you what a country died of.  But I'd like to know what it lived of."
-Finley Peter Dunne

"History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened."
-Earnest Albert Hooten

"History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough."
-Henry Adams

"History, n.  An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."
-Ambrose Bierce

"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity."
-Cicero