Famous quotes containing the words classic and/or period:
“A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.”
—Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)
“We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)