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)

    “Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)