Famous quotes containing the words history and/or age:
“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)