List Of People Named Burke
A number of notable people have the surname Burke, de Burgh and other variations:
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Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, named and/or burke:
“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When people get old and pearls get yellow, neither are worth much.”
—Chinese proverb.
“They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [a sheep].”
—Plutarch (46–120)
“A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)