Fireplace/history

Famous quotes containing the words fireplace and/or history:

“My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)