Frederick James Tollemache

Famous quotes containing the words frederick and/or james:

    For should your hands drop white and empty
    All the toys of the world would break.
    —John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)

    As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
    —William James (1843–1916)