Fiddle/history

Famous quotes containing the words fiddle and/or history:

“It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.”
—C.H. (Charles Haddon)

“When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?”
—David Hume (1711–1776)