Famous quotes containing the words baron, thomson and/or fleet:
“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”
—Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham (1778–1868)
“Now ‘tis nought
But restless hurry through the busy air,
Beat by unnumbered wings.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)