Mark Twain Quotes

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

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

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

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.

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

A tree falls the way it leans.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

It is futile to go against human nature.

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

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

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

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

History is the same thing over and over again.