Elder James Brown

Famous quotes containing the words elder, james and/or brown:

“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

“He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.”
—Olympia Brown (1835–1900)