Famous quotes containing the words blockheads and/or history:
“Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)