Folly/history

Famous quotes containing the words folly and/or history:

“The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of folly and inanity.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)