Persons
- Lincoln Hall (climber), the Australian mountain climber and author.
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Famous quotes containing the word persons:
“The general Mistake among us in the Educating of our Children, is, That in our Daughters we take Care of their Persons and neglect their Minds; in our Sons, we are so intent upon adorning their Minds, that we wholly neglect their Bodies.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry. For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)