Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .

Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)