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)

“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)