Baron Offaly/barons Offaly First Creation 1554-1599

Famous quotes containing the words baron, barons and/or creation:

    “For age with stealing steps
    Hath clawed me with his crutch,”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments. The child walks amid heaps of illusions, which he does not like to have disturbed. The boy, how sweet to him his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles! What a hero he is, whilst he feeds on his heroes! What a debt is his to imaginative books!”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “One of the necessary qualifications of an efficient business man in these days of industrial literature seems to be the ability to write, in clear and idiomatic English, a 1,000-word story on how efficient he is and how he got that way.... It seems that the entire business world were devoting its working hours to the creation of a school of introspective literature.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)