Bit/history

Famous quotes containing the words bit and/or history:

    “This dog and man at first were friends;
    But when a pique began,
    The dog, to gain some private ends,
    Went mad and bit the man.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

    “I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)