Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or century:
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)