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)

“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)