Pun/history

Famous quotes containing the words pun and/or history:

“A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)