Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, french and/or rule:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape ... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.”
—Marilyn French (b. 1929)
“Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.”
—John Malkovich (b. 1953)