Illescas Peninsula - History

Famous quotes containing the word history:

“History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning of things, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,—when did burdock and plantain sprout first?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)