Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or subject:
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)