Quotes, Aphorisms, Laws, and Thoughts

This collection of quotes started life in the early nineties for an After Dark™ screen saver module. The quotes had to be short enough to fit on a 9" Macintosh screen and pithy enough to warrant the trouble of typing them in. People requested copies but, at that time, there was no After Dark for Windows and only Macintosh users enjoyed the collection.
To allow a wider distribution, a slow conversion to a text file was started (there was no easy way of exporting the quotes from After Dark) which in 1997 became this website. It was created using plain HTML which made updating a laborious process. It had a quite a bit of success but interested tapered off as there were no new additions. In 2009 it was revamped to use a MySQL database to provide flexibility, a search option, and to slowly include new quotes found over the last twelve years.
History
History is the certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
Julian Barnes (1946- )
History repeats itself because nobody listens.
Anonymous
History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.
Philip Guedalla (1889-1944)
History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.
Geoffrey Willans (1911-1956)
History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse.
Nigel Molesworth
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I do not intend to prejudge the past.
William Whitelaw (1918-1999)
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was still nothing, but everybody could see it.
Anonymous
Soviet History 101: Who knows tomorrow what happened yesterday?
Anonymous
There was a time when religion ruled the world; it is known as the Dark Ages.
Ruth Hurmence Green (1915-1981)
We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
R.W. Dickson