James A. Garfield Quotes

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

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

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

History repeats herself.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

History is the same thing over and over again.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

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.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

What is past cannot be rewritten, but it is within our power to rewrite the future.

There is nothing new under the sun.

History repeats itself, first as history, then as farce.

What once happened will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall combine in the same way.

Nations and races change with the change of periods and the passage of time.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

It is with nations as with nature which knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

History teaches us that enmity between nations—as between individuals—do not last forever.

History usually repeats but it can be changed.

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.