Famous quotes containing the words stoical and/or history:
“I recommend limiting one’s involvement in other people’s lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)