Yeshu/the Talmudic Accounts in Detail

Famous quotes containing the words accounts and/or detail:

“Friendship is friendship, but accounts must be kept.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)