Famous quotes containing the words marie and/or biography:
“Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)