Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, saturday, night and/or live:
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“He who curses his wife in the evening will spend the night alone.”
—Chinese proverb.
“This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)