Whistle/history

Famous quotes containing the words whistle and/or history:

    Mother I longs to get married
    I longs to be a bride
    I longs to lay by that young man
    And close to by his side
    —Unknown. Whistle, Daughter, Whistle (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)