Screw/history

Famous quotes containing the words screw and/or history:

“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
—Colley Cibber (1671–1757)

“A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)