Folly/history

Famous quotes containing the words folly and/or history:

    They who in folly or mere greed
    Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
    Borrow our language now and bid
    Us to speak up in freedom’s cause.
    Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

    The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)