Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or century:
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (18991986)
“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“Sublimity is the echo of great mind.”
—Longinus (3rd century A.D.)
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