History Quotes by Mark Twain

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

— Mark Twain

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

— Mark Twain

It's so damned humiliating.

— Mark Twain

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

— Mark Twain

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

— Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

— Mark Twain

“Australian History: … does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

— Mark Twain

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

“We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be…

— Mark Twain

“It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good…

— Mark Twain

“Each time in fiction or in history I meet a well-defined personality I am personally interested in him, for we know each…

— Mark Twain

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader…

— Mark Twain

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill…

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

“A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not…

— Mark Twain

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and…

— Mark Twain

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular…

— Mark Twain

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and…

— Mark Twain

“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive…

— Mark Twain

“Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for "sitting where a god has stood".…

— Mark Twain

“SO endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much…

— Mark Twain

“All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories,…

— Mark Twain

“This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several…

— Mark Twain

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some…

— Mark Twain

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s…

— Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

— Mark Twain

From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied,…

— Mark Twain

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must…

— Mark Twain

“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and…

— Mark Twain

“So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a boy, it must stop here; the story could not go much…

— Mark Twain

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at…

— Mark Twain

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put…

— Mark Twain

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of…

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain