Famous quotes containing the words history, poland and/or partitions:
“I believe my ardour for invention springs from his loins. I can’t say that the brassiere will ever take as great a place in history as the steamboat, but I did invent it.”
—Caresse Crosby (1892–1970)
“It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
—Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)
“Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)