Mark Twain History Quotations

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes

History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Varanasi" is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

It's so damned humiliating.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.