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)

“If you look at history you’ll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)