1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Famous quotes containing the words earl, oxford and/or mortimer:

“There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)