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)

“You that would judge me do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon;
Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace;
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)