Prison/history

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or history:

“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)