Dore/history

Famous quotes containing the words dore and/or history:

    She was a worthy womman al hir lyve:
    Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve,
    Withouten oother compaignye in youthe,
    But thereof nedeth nat to speke as nowthe.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.
    William Burroughs (b. 1914)