British Museum Reading

Famous quotes containing the words british, museum and/or reading:

“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
—Robert Morley (1908–1992)

“One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 23, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

“A reading machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)