Kick/history

Famous quotes containing the words kick and/or history:

“As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood—a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)