Patent/history

Famous quotes containing the words patent and/or history:

    “This is the patent age of new inventions
    For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
    All propagated with the best intentions.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”
    —Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)