Whistle/history

Famous quotes containing the words whistle and/or history:

“In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)