Stock/history

Famous quotes containing the words stock and/or history:

    “And anyone is free to condemn me to death
    If he leaves it to nature to carry out the sentence.
    I shall will to the common stock of air my breath
    And pay a death tax of fairly polite repentance.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)