Whistle/history

Famous quotes containing the words whistle and/or history:

    Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you’ve got an audience.
    Diogenes of Sinope (c. 410–320 B.C.)

    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)