Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

    There were twa sisters sat in a bour;
    Binnorie, O Binnorie!
    There cam a knight to be their wooer,
    By the bonnie milldams o’ Binnorie.
    Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 1–4)

    The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony—periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)