Ruler/history

Famous quotes containing the words ruler and/or history:

“Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates
Change horses, making history change its tune,
Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,
Leaving at last not much besides chronology,
Excepting the post-obits of theology.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)