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)

“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)