Famous quotes containing the words sir, james, young and/or simpson:
“When the critics come around it’s always too late.”
—Sidney, Sir Nolan (1917–1992)
“The fatal futility of Fact.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“In my grandmother’s house there was always chicken soup
And talk of the old country—mud and boards,
Poverty,
The snow falling down and necks of lovers.”
—Louis Simpson (b. 1923)