Quotes About History

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

Incredible to think isn't it, that every single Scotsman, started off as a scotch egg. Old and gingery.

Germans respond well to lies. At least, they always have historically.

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt.

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 [gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh ... well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.