Length/history

Famous quotes containing the words length and/or history:

“The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keep us from discovering the faults of our friends.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)