Famous quotes containing the words milton hay, john milton, john, milton and/or hay:
“Good luck is the gayest of all gay girls;
Long in one place, she will not stay:”
—John Milton Hay (1838–1905)
“Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“And, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder fields unimproved by man? The crop of English hay is carefully weighed, the moisture calculated, the silicates and the potash; but in all dells and pond-holes in the woods and pastures and swamps grows a rich and various crop only unreaped by man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)