Milton Keynes Dons

Famous quotes containing the words milton and/or dons:

    “But see, the Virgin blest
    Hath laid her Babe to rest:
    Time is our tedious song should here have ending;
    Heaven’s youngest teemed star,
    Hath fixed her polished car,
    Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending;
    And all about the courtly stable,
    Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)