Speke/history

Famous quotes containing the words speke and/or history:

“Experience, though noon auctoritee
Were in this world, were right ynogh to me
To speke of wo that is in mariage.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)