Whistle/history

Famous quotes containing the words whistle and/or history:

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

“The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)