Sir James Carnegie

Famous quotes containing the words sir, james and/or carnegie:

    Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
    It’s fiftie fadom deip,
    And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
    Wi the Scots lords at his feit.
    —Unknown. Sir Patrick Spens (l. 41–44)

    True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
    —Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)