Charcoal/history

Famous quotes containing the words charcoal and/or history:

    For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases. As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 26:20-21.

    We may pretend that we’re basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
    Terry Hands (b. 1941)