Girdle/history

Famous quotes containing the words girdle and/or history:

    “There are no stars to-night
    But those of memory.
    Yet how much room for memory there is
    In the loose girdle of soft rain.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)