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)

“They are a sort of post-house,where the Fates
Change horses, making history change its tune,
Then spur away o’er empires and o’er states,
Leaving at last not much besides chronology,
Excepting the post-obits of theology.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)