Cabbage/history

Famous quotes containing the words cabbage and/or history:

“All his happier dreams came true
A small old house, wife, daughter, son,
Grounds where plum and cabbage grew,
Poets and Wits about him drew;
“What then?”sang Plato’s ghost, “what then?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)