Stock/history

Famous quotes containing the words stock and/or history:

    “Death and life were not
    Till man made up the whole,
    Made lock, stock and barrel
    Out of his bitter soul,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)