Stock/history

Famous quotes containing the words stock and/or history:

    “I’d rather I were dead and gone,
    And my body laid in grave,
    Ere a rusty stock o coal-black smith
    My maidenhead should have.”
    —Unknown. The Twa Magicians (l. 17–20)

    “It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)